A new order of things : property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

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Label

A new order of things : property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

Title remainder

property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

Statement of responsibility

Claudio Saunt

Title variation

Property, power, and the transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816

Creator

• Saunt, Claudio

Subject

• Creek Indians -- Cultural assimilation
• Creek Indians -- History

Language

eng

Summary

The story told here is a critical yet unknown chapter in the creation of the American republic. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. By 1800, some Creeks, whose most valuable belongings had once been deerskins, owned hundreds of African American slaves and thousands of cattle. Their leaders, who formerly strove for consensus, now ruled by force. New property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things is the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless

Member of

• Cambridge studies in North American Indian history

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

E99.C9

LC item number

S28 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Cambridge studies in North American Indian history