Setting All the Captives Free
Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2013
552 pages
978-0-7735-8989-6 (ISBN)
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A new interpretation of the nature of the eighteenth century's Anglo-French wars, focusing on those taken captive.
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Ian K. Steele
Setting All the Captives Free
Capture, Adjustment, and Recollection in Allegheny Country
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10/2013
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Steele Ian K.:
Ian K. Steele is professor emeritus and adjunct research professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include Politics of Colonial Policy, Guerillas and Grenadiers, The English Atlantic, Betrayals, and Warpaths. A festschrift in his honor, English Atlantics Revisited, edited by Nancy L. Rhoden, is available from McGill-Queen's University Press.Ian K. Steele is professor emeritus and adjunct research professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include Politics of Colonial Policy, Guerillas and Grenadiers, The English Atlantic, Betrayals, and Warpaths. A festschrift in his honor, English Atlantics Revisited, edited by Nancy L. Rhoden, is available from McGill-Queen's University Press.
Ian K. Steele is professor emeritus and adjunct research professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include Politics of Colonial Policy, Guerillas and Grenadiers, The English Atlantic, Betrayals, and Warpaths. A festschrift in his honor, English Atlantics Revisited, edited by Nancy L. Rhoden, is available from McGill-Queen's University Press.Ian K. Steele is professor emeritus and adjunct research professor of history at the University of Western Ontario. His previous books include Politics of Colonial Policy, Guerillas and Grenadiers, The English Atlantic, Betrayals, and Warpaths. A festschrift in his honor, English Atlantics Revisited, edited by Nancy L. Rhoden, is available from McGill-Queen's University Press.
Content
- Cover
- SETTING ALL THE CAPTIVES FREE
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Illustrations, Maps, and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART 1: CAPTURED IN "PEACETIME"
- 1 Taken along Warriors' Paths
- 2 Taking Traders, 1745-54
- 3 Colonial Soldiers Take Captives, 1754
- PART 2: CAPTURED IN WAR
- 4 Taken in Raids, 1754-59
- 5 Taken in Sieges and Surrenders, 1756-58
- 6 Taken in Battles, 1755-59
- 7 Indian War with Traders and Soldiers, 1763-65
- 8 Indian War with White Settlers, 1763-65
- PART 3: CAPTIVITY, CONVERSION, AND ESCAPE
- 9 Trails into Captivity
- 10 Allegheny White Indians
- 11 Escaped
- 12 The Bereft
- PART 4: SETTING ALL THE CAPTIVES FREE
- 13 Diplomacy of Gift Exchange, 1756-62
- 14 Redeemed and Exchanged, 1745-62
- 15 Forced Return of Captives
- 16 Imperial Moment, 1765
- PART 5: AFTERWARDS AND AFTERWORDS
- 17 Restoring and Revising Identities
- 18 Captivating Accounts, 1755-1826
- Conclusion
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Appendix: Named Captives Taken on the Allegheny Frontier, 1745-65
- Notes
- Index
