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Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions along the Mississippi

byJacob Lee

Masters of the Middle Waters is Jacob Lee's historical account of indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions along the Mississippi. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. Specific examples keep the larger argument tangible and reveal why familiar explanations do not always account for the full story. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Publication date

Mar 11, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

360

ISBN

9780674987678