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Joshua Piker
Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler [EPUB ebook]
Telling Stories in Colonial America

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Told by a colonial governor, a Creek military leader, Native Americans, and British colonists, each account of Acorn Whistler s execution for killing five Cherokees speaks to the collision of European and Indian cultures, the struggle to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire on the eve of the American Revolution.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 320 ● ISBN 9780674075603 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2683751 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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