Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America

by Peter Silver

Book Overview

Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presbyterians, Quakers, Catholics and Covenanters, Irish, German, French, and Welsh all sought to lay claim to a daunting countryside. Such groups had rarely intermingled in Europe, and the divisions between them only grew--until, with the arrival of the Seven Years' War, thousands of country people were forced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393334902
• ISBN13: 9780393334906
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"