New York: Strange And Disturbing News: Rumor And Diplomacy In The Colonial Hudson Valley

New York: Strange And Disturbing News: Rumor And Diplomacy In The Colonial Hudson Valley Tom Arne Midtrod, 2011   Frightening rumors of conspiracies and plots were a prominent feature of relations between Native Americans and Europeans in the colonial Hudson Valley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While these alarming reports usually had no foundation in reality, they nevertheless shed light on several aspects of Indian political and diplomatic relationships in this area. This...

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