Pontiac and the Indian Wars: 3 Classic Essential Books
Native Resistance, Imperial Rivalry, and Frontier Memory in Eighteenth-Century AmericaBy Kirk Munroe, Francis Parkman, Edson Leone Whitney, F. M. Perry
Length36h 14m
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Pontiac and the Indian Wars: 3 Classic Essential Books assembles three works that revisit the mid-eighteenth-century conflicts surrounding Pontiac's resistance and the reshaping of the Great Lakes frontier. Moving among historical narrative, popular adventure, and interpretive accounts of imperial warfare, the volume reveals how the era has been variously imagined in American letters. Its accounts of forts, alliances, raids, diplomacy, and contested territory are especially valuable when read critically alongside the colonial assumptions that often informed older histories of Indigenous-settler conflict. The collection brings together Kirk Munroe, Francis Parkman, Edson Leone Whitney, and F. M. Perry, writers associated with differing modes of historical recovery and popular narration. Parkman's influential nineteenth-century historical tradition stands beside Munroe's accessible storytelling and the complementary perspectives represented by Whitney and Perry. Collectively, these voices illuminate the literary afterlife of Pontiac's War while also exposing the changing conventions through which Native sovereignty, French and British imperial ambition, and frontier expansion were represented. Recommended for students, historians, and general readers, this volume offers a concentrated encounter with several classic approaches to a formative North American conflict. Its varied styles encourage comparison, critical reading, and reflection on how history becomes narrative, making it a useful gateway to both the period and its historiography.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length36 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
2The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada
3Preface TO THE SIXTH EDITION.
4Chapter II. 1608-1763. FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN AMERICA.
5Chapter IV. 1700-1755. COLLISION OF THE RIVAL COLONIES.
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6Chapter V. 1755-1763. THE WILDERNESS AND ITS TENANTS AT THE CLOSE OF THE FRENCH WAR.
7Chapter VIII. 1763. INDIAN PREPARATION.
8Chapter XI. 1763. TREACHERY OF PONTIAC.
9Chapter XIII. 1763. ROUT OF CUYLER’S DETACHMENT.—FATE OF THE FOREST GARRISONS.
10Chapter XVI. 1763. MICHILLIMACKINAC.
11THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC AND THE INDIAN WAR AFTER THE CONQUEST OF CANADA Vol. II.
12Chapter XX. 1763. THE BATTLE OF BUSHY RUN.
13Chapter XXIII. 1763-1764. THE INDIANS RAISE THE SIEGE OF DETROIT.
14Chapter XXVI. 1764. BRADSTREET’S ARMY ON THE LAKES.
15Chapter XXVII. 1764. BOUQUET FORCES THE DELAWARES AND SHAWANOES TO SUE FOR PEACE.
16Chapter XXVIII. 1764. THE ILLINOIS.
17Chapter XXXI. 1766-1769. DEATH OF PONTIAC.
18Appendix C. DETROIT AND MICHILLIMACKINAC.
19Appendix E. THE PAXTON RIOTS.
20Footnote
21Footnote
22At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin
23At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin
24A TALE OF REDCOAT AND REDSKIN (pt. 1)
25A TALE OF REDCOAT AND REDSKIN (pt. 2)
26A TALE OF REDCOAT AND REDSKIN (pt. 3)
27A TALE OF REDCOAT AND REDSKIN (pt. 4)
28Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola
29Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola
30THE STORY OF KING PHILIP
31VII. PHILIP'S DAILY LIFE
32III. PONTIAC'S EDUCATION
33XII. ALL ALONG THE FRONTIER
34IX. PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
35III. THE FIRST SEMINOLE WAR
36VIII. OSCEOLA A WAR CHIEF
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