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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

byColin Calloway

Colin Calloway uses The Indian World of George Washington to investigate the First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation through a carefully framed biographical portrait. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Together, these elements make The Indian World of George Washington an accessible guide to the subject and the questions it continues to raise.

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

640

ISBN

9780190056698