all Products Hardcover Books History History United States

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

Calloway, Colin G.

Select Format

Print Book

Hardcover

Item Condition New

$40.99 USD $68.32 USD

$40.99 USD

~~$68.32 USD~~ $40.99 USD

Sale Sold out

Shipping calculated at checkout.

Quantity

View full details

George Washington's place in the foundations of the Republic remains unrivalled. His life story--from his beginnings as a surveyor and farmer, to colonial soldier in the Virginia Regiment, leader of the Patriot cause, commander of the Continental Army, and finally first president of the United States--reflects the narrative of the nation he guided into existence. There is, rightfully, no more chronicled figure.

Yet American history has largely forgotten what Washington himself knew clearly: that the new Republic's fate depended less on grand rhetoric of independence and self-governance and more on land--Indian land. Colin G. Calloway's biography of the greatest founding father reveals in full the relationship between Washington and the Native leaders he dealt with intimately across the decades: Shingas, Tanaghrisson, Guyasuta, Attakullakulla, Bloody Fellow, Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, Red Jacket, and Little Turtle, among many others. Using the prism of Washington's life to bring focus to these figures and the tribes they represented--the Iroquois Confederacy, Lenape, Miami, Creek, Delaware--Calloway reveals how central their role truly was in Washington's, and therefore the nation's, foundational narrative.

Calloway gives the First Americans their due, revealing the full extent and complexity of the relationships between the man who rose to become the nation's most powerful figure and those whose power and dominion declined in almost equal degree during his lifetime. His book invites us to look at America's origins in a new light. The Indian World of George Washington is a brilliant portrait of both the most revered man in American history and those whose story during the tumultuous century in which the country was formed has, until now, been only partially told.

Accessories:

No Accessory

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PR

Bisac Major Subject

History

Bisac Minor Subject

United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Binding Type

Hardcover

Country Of Origin

Number Of Units

Length

9.4 Inches

Barcode Indicator

EAN

Width

6.5 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

Height

1.8 Inches

ISBN 10

0190652160

Weight

2.35 Pounds

Book EAN

9780190652166

Target Audiance

Adults

User reviews will be displayed here...

Item added to your cart

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation