Richard W Pointer

Pacifist Prophet

Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America

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Produktbeschreibung

Pacifist Prophet recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 366mm x 163mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781496222862
• ISBN-10: 1496222865
• Artikelnr.: 59181411

Autorenporträt

Richard W. Pointer is a professor of history at Westmont College. He is the author of Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial Religion and Protestant Pluralism and the New York Experience: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Religious Diversity.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction    
1. The Munsees’ World    
2. Becoming a Prophet    
3. Building Alliances    
4. Captives Together    
5. From Prophet to Guardian    
6. New Trials    
7. Ohio Endings    
Epilogue    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index