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University of Pennsylvania Press, Jun 3, 2011
A Whole Country in Commotion, 2005
Journal of World History, 2010
From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many mi... more From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many misconceptions about the early development of the United States. Nichols reinvigorates the detailed historiography of early United States policies toward Native Americans with a discussion of a complicated web of government, settler and Indian characters, each with their own self-interests and human motivations. More broadly, Nichols analyzes the political culture of the United States from the pointof-view of three divergent groups: elected federal officials in the east, white settlers in the backcountry, and various Indian groups in the west. In many ways, the narrative focuses on the odd and frequently unstable alliances between eighteenth century Indians and the fledgling United States government and the problems
The American Historical Review, 2017
Journal of the Early Republic, 2018
<p>ABSTRACT:</p><p>Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Na... more <p>ABSTRACT:</p><p>Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America. By David J. Silverman.</p>
Early American Literature, 2018
Abstract:This article defines and analyzes the concepts of vertical and horizontal translation. T... more Abstract:This article defines and analyzes the concepts of vertical and horizontal translation. Translators of historical documents must translate vertically through time as well as horizontally from a different language. These processes are further complicated when the original transcriber was a different person from the original speaker and when the source passes through multiple languages and cultures. The article explores these concepts in translations of sources by Pontiac, John Smith, and others in early North America.
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 2010
From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many mi... more From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many misconceptions about the early development of the United States. Nichols reinvigorates the detailed historiography of early United States policies toward Native Americans with a discussion of a complicated web of government, settler and Indian characters, each with their own self-interests and human motivations. More broadly, Nichols analyzes the political culture of the United States from the pointof-view of three divergent groups: elected federal officials in the east, white settlers in the backcountry, and various Indian groups in the west. In many ways, the narrative focuses on the odd and frequently unstable alliances between eighteenth century Indians and the fledgling United States government and the problems
Reviews in American History, 2020
Reviews in American History, 2019
New West Indian Guide, 2017
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc license at ... more This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc license at the time of publication.
The SHAFR Guide Online
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. By Kathleen DuVal. (New York: Ra... more Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. By Kathleen DuVal. (New York: Random House, 2015. Pp. xxvi, 435. Illustrations, maps, acknowledgments, notes, index. $28.00.)In this fascinating book, Kathleen DuVal uses the history of the Gulf Coast to forge a new interpretation of the American Revolution. Rather than ending empire and creating independence, DuVal's revolution ended interdependence and created a new North American empire. Though the region is often forgotten or elided in narratives of the Revolutionary War, the violence that began in 1775 nonetheless remade the map of the continent's southern coast. In addition, it upended the lives of the Indians, slaves, and colonists who uneasily shared the region. DuVal selects from this diverse crowd eight individuals whose lives she follows across time, allowing her to paint a rich picture of the complex societies that stretched from western Georgia to Louisiana. Foregrounding these men and women lets her demonstrate that the Revolution ended complicated patterns of interdependence within and among Gulf Coast communities, paving the way for an independent "empire of liberty" that "refused to share the continent" with others (p. xxiv).The life stories of these eight enable DuVal to deftly explain the complicated regional geopolitical relationships that had developed during the eighteenth century. Payamataha, a Chickasaw diplomat, responded to the devastation of the Seven Years' War by choosing peace. By the 1770s, his people began to reap the rewards of having become "more interdependent" with their British, Spanish, and Indian neighbors, just as the Patriot movement threatened those connections. Alexander McGillivray provides another view from Indian country. This member of the Creek Wind clan and son of a Scottish highlander grew enraged at the tactics of rebellious Georgians and threw in his lot with the British, demonstrating the personal interactions that shaped the choices of native peoples adjacent to the expanding white settlements of the East Coast. A pair of married Scots (James Bruce and Isabella Chrystie) give DuVal a chance to delve into the interests and loyalties of people in the new and growing British West Florida settlements. Petit Jean, an enslaved cattle driver in Mobile, lived under the French, British, and Spanish empires and used the upheaval of war to establish his own and his wife's freedom. Louisiana's complicated position, as a French-turned-Spanish colony that not only had multiple legal and illegal trading ties to British outposts, but also lay on the edge of several powerful indigenous polities, is illustrated through the lives of three people: a husband and wife team of Irish colonials, Oliver Pollock and Margaret O'Brien, and an Acadian exile named Amand Broussard, all of whom had plenty of reasons to loathe the British empire. …
Early American Literature, 2017
possible to discern, and (Englishman) Robert Southey’s 1805 poem Madoc appropriates the twelfthce... more possible to discern, and (Englishman) Robert Southey’s 1805 poem Madoc appropriates the twelfthcentury Welsh mythological prince in order to advance a preColumbian British (which is to say ultimately AngloAmerican) claim to the “discovery” of America. In other words, the major English and American authors discussed in Nation and Migration deploy ethnically marked fictional characters to express predominantly AngloAmerican desires or fears. The same is true of Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), a novel that, as Shields writes, “imagines Kentucky as a place where the primitive masculine virtues common to ancient Britons and American Indians might be reconciled with enlightened AngloAmerican political institutions” (109). Even Mary Shelley’s ostensibly critical representation of the “morally corrupt imperial center” in Lodore (1834) concludes by bringing its minimally Welsh and expatriate colonial characters back to the south of England in order to “enjoy sociability in seclusion, and comfort without excess” (114). “Welsh” or “American” identity here, as elsewhere, functions to provide AngloAmerican authors with a fairly predictable set of cleansing virtues that can be (re)claimed for a transatlantic English hegemony. In Albion’s Seed (1989), David Hackett Fisher (cited but not discussed by Shields) described four powerful waves of British immigration into what would become the United States and concluded that, “in a cultural sense, most Americans are Albion’s seed, no matter who their own forebears may have been.” Shields’s Nation and Migration confirms this thesis, but its examples also suggest that, in America, the diversity of figures and fantasies that formed “Albion” culture dissolved into one dominant AngloAmerican literary tradition.
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016
From 1680 to the late eighteenth century, Indians remained the most powerful polities in a politi... more From 1680 to the late eighteenth century, Indians remained the most powerful polities in a politically reorganized North America. When disruptions occurred across most of the continent, they tended to come from other Indians, from new cycles of disease, or as a consequence of adopting new goods or ideas, rather than as a direct consequence of European actions. This chapter explores this interpretive theme through overviews of Quapaw consumerism in the middle Mississippi valley, the Chickasaws and the southeastern slave trade, Osage expansion in the western Mississippi valley, the Five Nations Iroquois Grand Settlement of 1701, the adoption of horses on the Great Plains, and two places that experienced the less common but better-known situation of living with permanent European settlers: the Rio Grande valley and southern New England.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Jun 3, 2011
A Whole Country in Commotion, 2005
Journal of World History, 2010
From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many mi... more From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many misconceptions about the early development of the United States. Nichols reinvigorates the detailed historiography of early United States policies toward Native Americans with a discussion of a complicated web of government, settler and Indian characters, each with their own self-interests and human motivations. More broadly, Nichols analyzes the political culture of the United States from the pointof-view of three divergent groups: elected federal officials in the east, white settlers in the backcountry, and various Indian groups in the west. In many ways, the narrative focuses on the odd and frequently unstable alliances between eighteenth century Indians and the fledgling United States government and the problems
The American Historical Review, 2017
Journal of the Early Republic, 2018
<p>ABSTRACT:</p><p>Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Na... more <p>ABSTRACT:</p><p>Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America. By David J. Silverman.</p>
Early American Literature, 2018
Abstract:This article defines and analyzes the concepts of vertical and horizontal translation. T... more Abstract:This article defines and analyzes the concepts of vertical and horizontal translation. Translators of historical documents must translate vertically through time as well as horizontally from a different language. These processes are further complicated when the original transcriber was a different person from the original speaker and when the source passes through multiple languages and cultures. The article explores these concepts in translations of sources by Pontiac, John Smith, and others in early North America.
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 2010
From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many mi... more From the moment of reading the title, the reader is jolted awake and forced to reevaluate many misconceptions about the early development of the United States. Nichols reinvigorates the detailed historiography of early United States policies toward Native Americans with a discussion of a complicated web of government, settler and Indian characters, each with their own self-interests and human motivations. More broadly, Nichols analyzes the political culture of the United States from the pointof-view of three divergent groups: elected federal officials in the east, white settlers in the backcountry, and various Indian groups in the west. In many ways, the narrative focuses on the odd and frequently unstable alliances between eighteenth century Indians and the fledgling United States government and the problems
Reviews in American History, 2020
Reviews in American History, 2019
New West Indian Guide, 2017
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc license at ... more This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the prevailing cc-by-nc license at the time of publication.
The SHAFR Guide Online
Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. By Kathleen DuVal. (New York: Ra... more Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. By Kathleen DuVal. (New York: Random House, 2015. Pp. xxvi, 435. Illustrations, maps, acknowledgments, notes, index. $28.00.)In this fascinating book, Kathleen DuVal uses the history of the Gulf Coast to forge a new interpretation of the American Revolution. Rather than ending empire and creating independence, DuVal's revolution ended interdependence and created a new North American empire. Though the region is often forgotten or elided in narratives of the Revolutionary War, the violence that began in 1775 nonetheless remade the map of the continent's southern coast. In addition, it upended the lives of the Indians, slaves, and colonists who uneasily shared the region. DuVal selects from this diverse crowd eight individuals whose lives she follows across time, allowing her to paint a rich picture of the complex societies that stretched from western Georgia to Louisiana. Foregrounding these men and women lets her demonstrate that the Revolution ended complicated patterns of interdependence within and among Gulf Coast communities, paving the way for an independent "empire of liberty" that "refused to share the continent" with others (p. xxiv).The life stories of these eight enable DuVal to deftly explain the complicated regional geopolitical relationships that had developed during the eighteenth century. Payamataha, a Chickasaw diplomat, responded to the devastation of the Seven Years' War by choosing peace. By the 1770s, his people began to reap the rewards of having become "more interdependent" with their British, Spanish, and Indian neighbors, just as the Patriot movement threatened those connections. Alexander McGillivray provides another view from Indian country. This member of the Creek Wind clan and son of a Scottish highlander grew enraged at the tactics of rebellious Georgians and threw in his lot with the British, demonstrating the personal interactions that shaped the choices of native peoples adjacent to the expanding white settlements of the East Coast. A pair of married Scots (James Bruce and Isabella Chrystie) give DuVal a chance to delve into the interests and loyalties of people in the new and growing British West Florida settlements. Petit Jean, an enslaved cattle driver in Mobile, lived under the French, British, and Spanish empires and used the upheaval of war to establish his own and his wife's freedom. Louisiana's complicated position, as a French-turned-Spanish colony that not only had multiple legal and illegal trading ties to British outposts, but also lay on the edge of several powerful indigenous polities, is illustrated through the lives of three people: a husband and wife team of Irish colonials, Oliver Pollock and Margaret O'Brien, and an Acadian exile named Amand Broussard, all of whom had plenty of reasons to loathe the British empire. …
Early American Literature, 2017
possible to discern, and (Englishman) Robert Southey’s 1805 poem Madoc appropriates the twelfthce... more possible to discern, and (Englishman) Robert Southey’s 1805 poem Madoc appropriates the twelfthcentury Welsh mythological prince in order to advance a preColumbian British (which is to say ultimately AngloAmerican) claim to the “discovery” of America. In other words, the major English and American authors discussed in Nation and Migration deploy ethnically marked fictional characters to express predominantly AngloAmerican desires or fears. The same is true of Gilbert Imlay’s The Emigrants (1793), a novel that, as Shields writes, “imagines Kentucky as a place where the primitive masculine virtues common to ancient Britons and American Indians might be reconciled with enlightened AngloAmerican political institutions” (109). Even Mary Shelley’s ostensibly critical representation of the “morally corrupt imperial center” in Lodore (1834) concludes by bringing its minimally Welsh and expatriate colonial characters back to the south of England in order to “enjoy sociability in seclusion, and comfort without excess” (114). “Welsh” or “American” identity here, as elsewhere, functions to provide AngloAmerican authors with a fairly predictable set of cleansing virtues that can be (re)claimed for a transatlantic English hegemony. In Albion’s Seed (1989), David Hackett Fisher (cited but not discussed by Shields) described four powerful waves of British immigration into what would become the United States and concluded that, “in a cultural sense, most Americans are Albion’s seed, no matter who their own forebears may have been.” Shields’s Nation and Migration confirms this thesis, but its examples also suggest that, in America, the diversity of figures and fantasies that formed “Albion” culture dissolved into one dominant AngloAmerican literary tradition.
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2016
From 1680 to the late eighteenth century, Indians remained the most powerful polities in a politi... more From 1680 to the late eighteenth century, Indians remained the most powerful polities in a politically reorganized North America. When disruptions occurred across most of the continent, they tended to come from other Indians, from new cycles of disease, or as a consequence of adopting new goods or ideas, rather than as a direct consequence of European actions. This chapter explores this interpretive theme through overviews of Quapaw consumerism in the middle Mississippi valley, the Chickasaws and the southeastern slave trade, Osage expansion in the western Mississippi valley, the Five Nations Iroquois Grand Settlement of 1701, the adoption of horses on the Great Plains, and two places that experienced the less common but better-known situation of living with permanent European settlers: the Rio Grande valley and southern New England.