Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League — the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras — to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers.Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the orig...

In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land, but they did so in very different ways. For Native Americans, trade was a collective...

For the average tourist, the history of Philadelphia can be like a leisurely carriage ride through Old City. The Liberty Bell. Independence Hall. Benjamin Franklin. The grooves in the cobblestone are so familiar, one barely notices the ride. Yet there are other paths to travel, and the ride can be bumpy. Beyond the famed founders, other Americans walked the streets of Philadelphia whose lives were, in their own ways, just as emblematic of the promises and perils of the new nation.

In the Bible when it speaks of the End times, there is a warning that many will be deceived, even "the elect." With the rapid advancement of technology, we are living in a time when many of these deceptions and components of the system of the Antichrist can be accomplished and implemented, respectively. We actually use many of these components in our day-to-day lives without considering how they can be used against us. During the recent global pandemic many individual technologies were int...

Step into immersive historical fiction to master the mental habits of genius, turning private doubt into innovation. Perfect for an inspiring morning commute or a contemplative walk, these thrilling tales transport you from ancient city-states to digital-age startups. Watch as courageous visionaries risk everything to challenge broken assumptions and reshape human destiny.Rather than dry academic theories, these deeply emotional character studies reveal the crippling conflicts that...

Focusing on the period known as the Second Sophistic (an era roughly co-extensive with the second century AD), this Handbook serves the need for a broad and accessible overview. The study of the Second Sophistic is a relative new-comer to the Anglophone field of classics and much of what characterizes it temporally and culturally remains a matter of legitimate contestation. The present handbook offers a diversity of scholarly voices that attempt to define, as much as is possible in a singl...

This look at the field of ichnology is "an excellent compendium and a timely piece on a rapidly expanding and changing area of research" ( Quarterly Review of Biology).The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as ex...

In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives and newcomers alike understood the close relationship between political power and control of trade and land, but they did so in very different ways. For Native Americans, trade was a collective...

The Dark Eye Short Story Anthology When stars fall from the sky, the peoples of Aventuria see visions of impending doom. The signs are clear to everyone, from simple farmers to clergy and even crowned heads of state. Whether these visions will prove true, or even possible, none can say. The Walls of Alveran tremble as the Nameless God rattles his chains, setting monumental events in motion. The Turn of Ages brings great change to Aventuria, and the fate of the entire world hangs in the bal...

Aristotle in the Antebellum South addresses two questions related to the use of the classical past in the context of the proslavery argument as it developed in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s. First, what specific ideological needs did Aristotelian ideas about natural hierarchy serve in the antebellum South? Ideas about natural slavery explicitly marked as Aristotelian had been universally rejected by slavery's apologists almost from the moment of their formulation in the fourth century B...

Engagingly written, deeply researched, and thoroughly revised to reflect the most recent interdisciplinary scholarship, this new edition of Native Americans and Pennsylvania focuses on Indigenous actors, voices, and landscapes, while tracing interconnections among local, continental, and global trends.The story begins thousands of years before there was such a thing as “Pennsylvania.” William Penn did not paint his colony on a blank canvas. Colonists adapted ancient patter...