Kathleen DuVal
Autor/a de Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
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Crèdit de la imatge: From UNC Website
Obres de Kathleen DuVal
The Native Ground (Early American Studies) 1 exemplars
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Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) (2010) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
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- DuVal, Kathleen
- Data de naixement
- 1970
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- female
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Independence lost : lives on the edge of the… de Kathleen DuVal
Ir was good, giving a fresh perspective on the Revolution. What was happening in the rest of the country while the 13 colonies were in revolt? I'd have liked to hear more of the voices, but, since slaves and native Americans were a large part of the focus, the voices probably were not preserved.
DuVal brings attention to a little-known (at least to me) aspect of the American Revolutionary War era: events and people in the area that surrounds the Gulf of Mexico. She also covers the involvement of diverse types of people: Native-Americans tribes, the slave Petit Jean, negotiator Alexander McGillivray who was Scots-Creek, and others. Sometimes I‘d lose the thread of the overall history when she‘d zoom into one of these individuals; but overall enlightening.
A history focused on the southeastern North American colonies, from which the Revolution looked less important than the larger imperial contests of which it was a part. DuVal argues that “independence” wasn’t an important concept in the way we now understand it; instead, relationships of dependence and interaction were key to how people and peoples structured their lives.
When you cut to the chase this book is mostly a history of the American Revolution in the South as an imperial war between Britain & Spain and how local communities decided what sides they were on; in this perspective the Chickasaw and Creek nations were rather more relevant than the doings of the Patriot government in Philadelphia. I tend to agree with some Amazon reviewers that DuVal's focus on exemplary individuals as stand-ins for whole communities can feel a little schematic at times, but for the person this book is aimed at the notion of the Indian tribes having an organized foreign policy is still probably a novel concept. This is besides the emphasis on communities seeking better relationships with other communities AS a community, not the then rising American notion of a polity based on a society of free white men with minimal social commitments to each other.… (més)
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