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Author: James Thomas Flexner Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815602392 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 452
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William Johnson was among the most powerful and romantic figures in early American history. Beginning as an impoverished eighteenth century Irish immigrant, he became the wealthiest and most influential Indian leader on the North American continent. Married to Molly Brant, sister of the celebrated Mohawk Joseph Brant, Johnson served as a mediator in the evolving clash of the European and Native American cultures. This new edition brings back into print a classic work that will be welcomed reading for all those interested in early American history and American-Indian relations.
Author: James Thomas Flexner Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815602392 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
William Johnson was among the most powerful and romantic figures in early American history. Beginning as an impoverished eighteenth century Irish immigrant, he became the wealthiest and most influential Indian leader on the North American continent. Married to Molly Brant, sister of the celebrated Mohawk Joseph Brant, Johnson served as a mediator in the evolving clash of the European and Native American cultures. This new edition brings back into print a classic work that will be welcomed reading for all those interested in early American history and American-Indian relations.
Author: Fintan O'Toole Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1466892692 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 562
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A provocative new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the Iroquois William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738, Johnson moved to the frontiers along the Mohawk River, where he established himself as a fur trader and eventually became a landowner with vast estates; served as principal British intermediary with the Iroquois Confederacy; command British, colonial, and Iroquois forces that defeated the French in the battle of Lake George in 1755; and created the first groups of "rangers," who fought like Indians and led the way to the Patriots' victories in the Revolution. As Fintan O'Toole's superbly researched, colorfully dramatic narrative makes clear, the key to Johnson's signal effectiveness was the style in which he lived as a "white savage." Johnson had two wives, one European, one Mohawk; became fluent in Mohawk; and pioneered the use of Indians as active partners in the making of a new America. O'Toole's masterful use of the extraordinary (often hilariously misspelled) documents written by Irish, Dutch, German, French, and Native American participants in Johnson's drama enlivens the account of this heroic figure's legendary career; it also suggests why Johnson's early multiculturalism unraveled, and why the contradictions of his enterprise created a historical dead end.
Author: Milton Wheaton Hamilton Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Associated Faculty Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 440
Author: Alexander Clarence Flick Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781015724129 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author: Alexander Clarence Flick Publisher: Scholar's Choice ISBN: 9781294988229 Category : Languages : en Pages : 850
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Author: James Thomas Flexner
Author: James Thomas Flexner
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