萝莉社

"Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison鈥檚 career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the political development of Indiana Territory and in shaping Indian policy in the Old Northwest."

"In early America, interracial homicide鈥攚hites killing Native Americans, Native Americans killing whites鈥攎ight result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert M. Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time."

"From the end of Pontiac鈥檚 War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear鈥攅ven paranoia鈥攄rove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era鈥攊nvariably treated as discrete, regional affairs鈥攁s the inextricably related struggles they were."