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Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility.… (lisätietoja)
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This book has a lot of things to talk about--questions about how narrative is produced and what shapes it, about the various scales and levels that seeming 'microhistories' can address, about the pursuit of truth. The format for me wasn't so much ingenious as like... made sense and yet also felt repetitive at some times, though I know other people feel differently. Despite questioning narratives, Piker does cling pretty heavily to questions of truth, so he doesn't career into like postmodern history or whatever, but that clinging to truth comes across as weird because he buries what he thinks happened in like the last third of the book.
I will say that he does good work with putting Creek sovereignty specifically at the forefront of the conflict he's writing about, which is something I've discovered other folks writing about Native people during the period are Not Great at, and the careful attention to details is impressive work. I guess overall I just wasn't super moved by this book because of personal taste--it's not my era, and I'm not super invested in questions about like 'how do we do the work we do when everything is produced with bias'. It might be useful for teaching undergrads at an upper level, but I think you can accomplish many of these lessons without it, it's sort of whatever for me. ( )
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
For Francesca, as always And for Naima, from now on
Ensimmäiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
The day's violence was unexpected and thus all the more shocking. (Prologue)
The details of Acorn Whistler's execution are, to put it mildly, a bit unclear. (Introduction)
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Viimeiset sanat
Tiedot englanninkielisestä Yhteisestä tiedosta.Muokkaa kotoistaaksesi se omalle kielellesi.
Winners write history, but—to return to my question in the introduction—what of histories where there are no winners? It is all to easy for us to lose track of those stories. No one had a stake in seeing them preserved; no one comes off looking particularly admirable in any of them. And yet, in the end, it is those stories and the ways in which they were told that allow us to understand what it meant to be a contemporary of Acorn Whistler.
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility.
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I will say that he does good work with putting Creek sovereignty specifically at the forefront of the conflict he's writing about, which is something I've discovered other folks writing about Native people during the period are Not Great at, and the careful attention to details is impressive work. I guess overall I just wasn't super moved by this book because of personal taste--it's not my era, and I'm not super invested in questions about like 'how do we do the work we do when everything is produced with bias'. It might be useful for teaching undergrads at an upper level, but I think you can accomplish many of these lessons without it, it's sort of whatever for me. (