Rachel B. Herrmann No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution 9781501716119

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Автор: Rachel B. Herrmann
Название: No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution
ISBN: 9781501716119
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Америк

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Американская война за независимость

ISBN-10: 1501716115
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 308
Вес: 0.03 кг.
Дата издания: 15.11.2019
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 5 halftones, black and white
Размер: 226 x 152 x 20
Ключевые слова: Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food,HISTORY / Military / United States,HISTORY / Revolutionary
Подзаголовок: Waging war and fighting hunger in the american revolution
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Rachel B. Herrmanns No Useless Mouth is truly a breath of fresh air in the way it aligns food and hunger as the focal point of a new lens to reexamine the American Revolution. Her careful scrutiny, inclusive approach, and broad synthesis?all based on extensive archival research?produced a monograph simultaneously rich, audacious, insightful, lively, and provocative.
? The Journal of American History

In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to assert authority. Black colonists also stole and destroyed food to ward off hunger and carve out tenuous spaces of freedom. Hunger was a means of power and a weapon of war.

In No Useless Mouth, Rachel B. Herrmann argues that Native Americans and formerly enslaved black colonists ultimately lost the battle against hunger and the larger struggle for power because white British and United States officials curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms. By describing three interrelated behaviors—food diplomacy, victual imperialism, and victual warfare—the book shows that, during this tumultuous period, hunger prevention efforts offered strategies to claim power, maintain communities, and keep rival societies at bay.

Herrmann shows how Native Americans, free blacks, and enslaved peoples were useful mouths—not mere supplicants for food, without rights or power—who used hunger for cooperation and violence, and took steps to circumvent starvation. Her wide-ranging research on black Loyalists, Iroquois, Cherokee, Creek, and Western Confederacy Indians demonstrates that hunger creation and prevention were tools of diplomacy and warfare available to all people involved in the American Revolution. Placing hunger at the center of these struggles foregrounds the contingency and plurality of power in the British Atlantic during the Revolutionary Era.

Thanks to generous funding from Cardiff University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Дополнительное описание:

Introduction: Why the Fight against Hunger Mattered
Part One: Power Rising
1. Hunger, Accommodation, and Violence in Colonial America
2. Iroquois Food Diplomacy in the Revolutionary North
3. Cherokee and Creek Victual Warfare

No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution, Rachel B. Herrmann