Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties: How American Indians Were Displaced by White Settlers in the Cuyahoga Valley Contributor(s): Tully, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1583675671 ISBN-13: 9781583675670 Publisher: Monthly Review Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - History | United States - State & Local - General |
Dewey: 977.131 |
LCCN: 2015035431 |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.65 lbs) 144 pages |
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Publisher Description: Long before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beginning in the early 19th-century, white settlers began pushing in from the east, lured by the promise of cheap (or free) land. They inevitably came into conflict with the current inhabitants, American Indians who had thrived in the valley for generations or had already been displaced by settlement along the eastern seaboard. Here, on what was once the western fringe of the United States, the story of the country's founding and development played out in all its ignominy and drama, as American Indians lost their land, and often their lives, while white settlers expanded a nation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Tully, John: - Dr. John Tully is lecturer in politics and internationalstudies at Victoria University in Melbourne Australia. He is author of four books: Cambodia Under the Tricolour: King Sisowath and the 'Mission Civilisatrice, 1904-1927; France on the Mekong: A History of the Protectorate in Cambodia, 1863-1953; A Short History of Cambodia: From Empire to Survival; and a novel, Death Is the Cool Night. |