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The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers, and the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774

Pawlikowski, Melissah J.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397265724

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, History.
"The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers & the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in the Indian Country, 1750-1774" explores the creation of a European & Indian commons in the Ohio Valley as well as an in-depth examination of the network of interethnic communities and a secondary economic system created by refugee Euroamerican, Black, and Indian inhabitants. Six elements of creolization--the fusion of language, symbols, and legal codes; the adoption of material goods; and the exchange of labor and knowledge--resulted in ethnogenesis and a local culture marked by inclusivity, tolerance, and a period of peace. Finally this project details how, in the absence of traditional power brokers, Indians and Europeans created and exchanged geopolitical power between local Indians and Euroamericans as a method of legitimizing authority for their occupation of the Ohio Valley.
John Brooke (Advisor)
Lucy Murphy (Committee Member)
Margaret Newell (Committee Member)
407 p.
History
Squatters; Ohio Valley; Susquehanna Valley; George Croghan; French and Indian War; Delaware Indians; Baynton Wharton and Morgan; Lord Dunmore War; Refugees; Creolization; Ethnogenesis; Frontier; Borderland; Migration; Land; Iroquois; West Virginia

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  • Pawlikowski, M. J. (2014). The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers, and the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774 [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397265724

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pawlikowski, Melissah. The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers, and the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397265724.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pawlikowski, Melissah. "The Plight and the Bounty: Squatters, War Profiteers, and the Transforming Hand of Sovereignty in Indian Country, 1750-1774." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397265724

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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