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024 7 _a10.7591/9781501728440
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501728440
035 _a(DE-B1597)515006
035 _a(OCoLC)1076632705
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082 0 4 _a362.2/92/08997
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMancall, Peter C.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDeadly Medicine :
_bIndians and Alcohol in Early America /
_cPeter C. Mancall.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©1997
300 _a1 online resource (288 p.) :
_b16 black/white illus., 2 maps
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tPreface --
_tAbbreviations --
_tPROLOGUE History and Physiology --
_tCHAPTER ONE. Stereotypes --
_tCHAPTER TWO. Trade --
_tCHAPTER THREE. Consumption --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. Costs --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. Temperance --
_tCHAPTER SIX. New Spain, New France --
_tCHAPTER SEVEN. The British Imperial Moment, 1763-1775 --
_tEPILOGUE. Legacies --
_tAPPENDIX I. Value of rum and of all goods traded to Indian groups in Illinois country by Baynton, Wharton & Morgan for the crown, 1767-1768 --
_tAPPENDIX II. The Speech of a Creek-Indian, against the Immoderate Use of Spirituous Liquors --
_tNotes --
_tA Note on Sources --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _a"An important work of scholarship, with powerful, concise, and objective insights into the complicated history of alcohol use among Native American peoples. Impeccably researched, cogently argued and clearly written, Peter Mancall's book is both an eye-opener for the lay reader and an invaluable resource for the expert."— Michael Dorris, author of The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol SyndromeAlcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America.Mancall recounts how English settlers quickly found a market for alcohol among the Indians, and traffic in rum became a prominent source of revenue for the British Empire. In spite of the colonists' growing awareness that some Indians abused alcohol and that drinking threatened the stability of countless Indian villages already decimated by European diseases, they expanded the liquor trade into virtually every Indian community from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. In response, Indians created one of the most important temperance movements in American history, a movement that was nevertheless unable to halt the lucrative commerce.The author follows the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the colonial distributors and on to the Indian consumers in the eastern woodlands. To discover why Indians participated in the trade and why they experienced such a powerful desire for alcohol, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and reexamines the colonial era as a time when Indians were forming new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Finally, Mancall compares Indian drinking in New France and New Spain with that in the British colonies.Forever shattering the stereotype of the drunken Indian, Mancall offers a powerful indictment of English participation in the liquor trade and a new awareness or the trade's tragic cost for the American Indians.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 4 _aMedicine & Medical Issues.
650 4 _aNative American Studies.
650 4 _aU.S. History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Native American.
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653 _aIndian drinking.
653 _aIndian-European relations.
653 _aIndians of North America and their alcohol use.
653 _aIndigenous Peoples in the Americas history.
653 _aIndigenous Peoples.
653 _aIndigenous cultures.
653 _aalcholism and indigenous people.
653 _aalcohol abuse in native american communities.
653 _aalcohol consumption in colonial era.
653 _aamerican history.
653 _aamerican indian culture and research.
653 _abooks on native american history.
653 _abritish liquor trade in the americas.
653 _acolonial indian affairs.
653 _acolonial native american history.
653 _acolonial period history.
653 _acolonial records and indian affairs.
653 _aeffects of alcohol on american indians.
653 _aeffects of alcohol on native americans.
653 _aethnohistory.
653 _agene that causes alcoholism.
653 _ahistory of alcohol use.
653 _ahow do native americans get addicted to alcohol.
653 _aindian drinking in colonial america.
653 _aindian drinking practices.
653 _aindian drunkenness.
653 _aindigenous history.
653 _aindigenous studies.
653 _anative american demographic studies.
653 _anative american history.
653 _astereotypes of indian drunkenness.
653 _astudies on alcohol.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501728440
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501728440
856 4 2 _3Cover
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