| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Contrasts and Similarities: Pennsylvania and Georgia -- 2. Sovereignty and Real Estate -- 3. Blood in the Southern Hills -- 4. Murder and Kentucky -- 5. Murder and Revolution -- 6. Conquest in Theory and Practice -- 7. Cherokees and Creeks in the New Republic -- 8. Hanging Maw's Words versus Tennessee Bullets -- 9. Total Destruction? Creek-US Relations in the 1790s -- 10. Murder in the Age of Jefferson -- 11. Gender, Violence, and the Limitations of Chivalry -- 12. "An indelible reproach upon the character of a Christian country and society": Murder and Occasional Justice in the North -- 13. Prologue to Removal -- 14. Colonial Endgame -- Conclusion. Tsali -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract |
"This book analyzes how intercultural murders complicated, but at times facilitated, diplomacy between Indians and whites in Early America"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History |
| LCCN | 2023031810 |
| ISBN | 9780806193625 hardcover |
| ISBN | 080619362X hardcover |
