Lenape Country by Jean R Soderlund

Lenape Country by Jean R Soderlund

Lenape Country is a sweeping narrative history of Lenape Indian encounters with European settlers in the Delaware Valley in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

"A commonly held idea is that Quaker settlers led by William Penn established Delaware Valley society's emphases on freedom, tolerance, and peaceful conflictIn Lenape Country, however, Jean R. Soderlund demonstrates that these Delaware Valley hallmarks originated with the Lenape Indians and were the bases of Lenape economic and political dominance through successive waves of European colonization in the region... Lenape Country is meticulously researched and cautiously analyzed, qualities that strengthen Soderlund's assertions for the primacy of Lenape influence in the formation of Delaware Valley identity. It is a much needed study of this pivotal time in American history and a valuable contribution to Native American and colonial-era scholarship."-American Studies "Succinct and imaginatively conceived, Lenape Country is one of the best narrative histories I have read to date on the European-Indian interaction along the Delaware River."-Gunlog Fur, author of A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians

Jean R. Soderlund is Professor of History at Lehigh University and editor of William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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ISBN 13	9780812246476
ISBN 10	0812246470
Title	Lenape Country
Author	Jean R Soderlund
Series	Early American Studies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Pennsylvania Press
Year published	2014-09-25
Number of pages	264
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the 2016 Pennsylvania Historical Association Philip S. Klein Book Prize 2021
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