Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800

by Yale Hart Richmond, James H. Merrell, Wilcomb E. Washburn, et al.

Book Overview

For centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier--"the Romans of this Western World, " as De Witt Clinton called them in 1811. Only in recent years have scholars come to realize the extent to which Europeans had exaggerated the power of the Iroquois. First published in 1987, Beyond the Covenant Chain was one of the first studies to acknowledge fully that the Iroquois never had an empire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815624166
• ISBN13: 9780815624165
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"