The Treaties of 1736-62
Susan Kalter
British colonial relations with the native peoples of eastern North America
This is an annotated edition of the treaties between the British colonies and Indian nations, originally printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin. Last published in 1938, Benjamin Franklin, Pennsylvania, and the First Nations makes these important treaties available once again, featuring a simpler, easier-to-read format, extensive explanatory notes, and maps. A detailed introduction by Susan Kalter puts the treaties in their proper historical and cultural context.
This carefully researched edition shows these treaties to be complex intercultural documents, and provides significant insight into the British colonists' relationship with native peoples of North America. They also reveal the complexity of Benjamin Franklin's perceptions of Native Americans, showing him in some negotiations as a promoter of the Indian word against the colonial one. Finally, the treaties offer an enormous wealth of linguistic, aesthetic, and cultural information about the Iroquois, the Delawares, and their allies and neighbors.
SUSAN KALTER is an assistant professor of English at Illinois State University, Normal.
August 2005
472 pages. 6 x 9.25 inches. 3 line drawings.
Cloth, ISBN 0-252-03035-4. $45.00
William Dunlap
Introduction by Tice L. Miller
The genesis of the American theatre as told by one of its founding fathers
As America passed from a mere venue for English plays into a country with its own nationally regarded playwrights, William Dunlap lived the life of a pioneer on the frontier of the fiedgling American theatre, full of adventures, mishaps, and close calls. He adapted and translated plays for the American audience and wrote plays of his own as well, learning how theatres and theatre companies operated from the inside out.
Dunlap's masterpiece, A History of American Theatre was the first of its kind, drawing on the author's own experiences. In it, he describes the development of theatre in New York, Philadelphia, and South Carolina as well as Congress's first attempts at theatrical censorship. Never before previously indexed, this edition also includes a new introduction by Tice L. Miller.
WILLIAM DUNLAP (1766-1839) was a playwright, adapter, and producer. He was a partner in William Hallam's American Company--the first theatrical company in the United States--and a founder of the National Academy of Design. TICE L. MILLER is a professor of theatre arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of Bohemians and Critics and coeditor of the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
June 2005
424 pages. 6 x 9-1/4 inches
Cloth, ISBN 0-252-03030-3. $80.00
Paper, ISBN 0-252-07285-5. $30.00
Stephen Warren
Looking past the rhetoric to expose the forces that shaped Shawnee nationalism
Stephen Warren traces the transformation in Shawnee sociopolitical organization over seventy years as it changed from village-centric, multi-tribe kin groups to an institutionalized national government led by wealthy men with only marginal kin ties to the people they claimed to represent. The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 lays bare the nexus of myth and history produced by Shawnee interpreters with a telling analysis of their vested interests in modernizing the tribes. Until recently, historians have assumed that Central Algonquians derive from politically unified tribes, but by analyzing the crucial role that individuals, institutions, and policies played in shaping modern tribal governments, a messier, more complicated history of migration and confiict emerges.
With a particular focus on the role played by Christian missionaries in Shawnee life, Warren explores how Native peoples used agents of assimilation to craft enduring and distinctive responses to American cultural imperialism. Specifically, Warren examines how and why tribal leaders defied government plans for tribal consolidation by allying themselves with Methodist, Baptist, and Quaker missionaries. Ultimately, Warren aims to establish that the form of the modern Shawnee "tribe" was coerced in accordance with the U.S. government's desire for an entity with whom to do business, rather than as a natural development of traditional Shawnee ways.
STEPHEN WARREN is a visiting assistant professor of history at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
July 2005
224 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 5 photographs, 3 line drawings.
Cloth, ISBN 0-252-02995-X. $35.00
Nicholas Temperley
In Bound for America,
Nicholas Temperley documents the lives, careers, and music of three British
composers who emigrated from England in mid-career and became leaders in the
musical life of the American Federal era.
William Selby of London and Boston (1738-98), Rayner Taylor of London and Philadelphia
(1745-1825), and George K. Jackson of London, New York, and Boston (1757-1822)
were among the first trained professional composers to make their home in America
and are generally regarded as pioneers in the building of an art-music tradition
in the New World that reflected the esteemed "classical" music of
Europe.
The three composers
all began their work in London, one of Europe's greatest centers of music. Why,
in middle age, would they emigrate and start over in uncertain and unfavorable
conditions? How did the new environment affect their lives and careers? In seeking
answers, Temperley explores each musician's youthful period in England, uncovering
much new material. He compares their lives, careers, and compositional styles
in the two countries and reflects on American musical nationalism and the changing
emphasis in American musical historiography.
Nicholas Temperley is a professor emeritus of music at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. His books include The Music of the English Parish Church
and Haydn: The Creation.
A volume in the series Music in American Life
October 2003
312 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 21 photographs.
Cloth, ISBN 0-252-02847-3. $34.95
Music / Biography & Personal Papers
Eliza
W. Farnham
Introduction by John Hallwas
A descriptive travel
account, autobiography, and extended essay, Life in Prairie Land--now back in
print--is a classic account of everyday life in early Illinois. Eliza Farnham,
a New Yorker who would become one of the leading feminists of her time, describes
the nearly five years she spent living in the frontier environment of Tazewell
County, along the Illinois River.
Life in Prairie Land is a complex portrait of the midwestern wilderness during
the 1830s--beautiful and ugly, beneficent and threatening. Farnham's vivid re-creation
of her experiences on the Illinois frontier offers a realistic depiction of
pioneer life and a romantic view of an Edenic landscape.
Life in Prairie Land portrays Farnham's encounters with early settlers and Native Americans, reflects her eye-opening experiences with birth and death, describes the unspoiled landscape that surrounded her, and depicts the developing towns that she passed through. Farnham's years on the Illinois frontier showed her the possibilities of a less restrictive society and planted the seeds that would later grow into firmly held and eloquently expressed views on women's equality.
2003
312 pp pages. 6 x 9 inches.
Paper, ISBN 0-252-06039-3. $19.95