Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America Hardcover - 1995
by Peter C. Mancall
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Alcohol abuse has killed and impoverished American Indians since the seventeenth century, when European settlers began trading rum for furs. In the first book to probe the origins of this ongoing social crisis, Peter C. Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America. The author follows the trail of rum from the West Indian producers to the colonial distributors and on to the Indian consumers in the eastern woodlands. To discover why Indians participated in the trade and why they experienced such a powerful desire for alcohol, he addresses current medical views on alcoholism and reexamines the colonial era as a time when Indians were forming new strategies for survival in a world that had been radically changed. Finally, Mancall compares Indian drinking in New France and New Spain with that in the British colonies. Forever shattering the stereotype of the drunken Indian, Mancall offers a powerful indictment of English participation in the liquor trade and a new awareness of the trade's tragic cost for the American Indians.
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- Title Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America
- Author Peter C. Mancall
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
- Date 1995-06-29
- ISBN 9780801427626 / 0801427622
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.31 x 0.91 in (23.62 x 16.03 x 2.31 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95001445
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.292
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- Library Journal, 06/01/1995, Page 138
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