The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 » (1st Edition)

Richard White holds the Margaret Byrne Professorship in American History at Stanford University and is widely regarded as one of the nation's leading scholars in three related fields: the American West, Native American history and environmental history. Professor White is the author of five books. The first edition of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 1815 (1991) was named a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize. Among other honors, he is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship.

An acclaimed classic book, the 20th anniversary edition of The Middle Ground includes a new preface by the author.

Introduction
1. Refugees:
a world made of fragments
2. The middle ground
3. The fur trade
4. The alliance
5. Republicans and rebels
6. The clash of empires
7. Pontiac and the restoration of the middle ground
8. The British alliance
9. The contest of villagers
10. Confederacies
11. The politics of benevolence
Epilogue.