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This study of the cultural and military importance of British forts in the colonial era explains how these forts served as communities in Indian country more th

British forts in the colonial American backcountry have long been subjects of American heroic myth. Forts were romanticized as harbingers of European civilizati

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Views of Modernity: Internal/External Discovery 1. Crevecoeu

In 1720s London, a well-known band of young ruffians gave themselves crescent tattoos and adorned turbans in honour of their so-called 'mohamattan [Muslim]' Ind