TY - BOOK AU - Dennis,Matthew TI - Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in Seventeenth-Century America SN - 9781501723698 U1 - 974.7/004975 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Iroquois Indians KW - Government relations KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Social conditions KW - Early American & Colonial History KW - U.S. History KW - HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps and Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART I. LANDSCAPE, HISTORY, AND REPRESENTATION: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IROQUOIS --; 1. Iroquoia: Land, World View, and Landscape --; 2. Owasco into Iroquois: War, Peace, and the Social Construction of the Five Nations --; 3. Deganawidah and the Cultivation of Peace: Iroquois Ideology, Political Culture, and Representation --; PART II. NEW WORLDS --; 4. Settlement and Unsettlement: New Netherland, Beverwyck, and the Dutch Frontier --; 5. Commerce, Kinship, and the Transaction of Peace --; 6. False Starts and Failed Promises: New France and the French Frontier --; 7. Kinship, Conversion, Conquest, and the French-Iroquois Discourse of Frustration --; Epilogue: Iroquois Reconstruction --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeenth-century America. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of the diverse peoples who coexisted uneasily during the colonial encounter between Europeans and Indians, he explains a long-standing paradox: the apparent belligerence of the Five Nations, a people who saw themselves as promoters of universal peace.In a radically new interpretation of the Iroquois, Dennis argues that the Five Nations sought to incorporate their new European neighbors as kinspeople into their Longhouse, the physical symbolic embodiment of Iroquois domesticity and peace. He offers a close, original reading of the fundamental political myth of the Five Nations, the Deganawidah Epic, and situates it historically and ideologically in Iroquois life. Detailing the particular nature of Iroquois peace, he describes the Five Nations' diligent efforts to establish peace on their own terms and the frustrations and hostilities that stemmed from the fundamental contrast between Iroquois and European goals, expectations, and perceptions of human relationships UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723698 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501723698 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501723698/original ER -