Your Fyre Shall Burn No More
Department
History
Document Type
Book
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Description
Why were the Iroquois unrelentingly hostile toward the French colonists and their Native allies? The longstanding "Beaver War" interpretation of seventeenth-century Iroquois-French hostilities holds that the Iroquois’ motives were primarily economic, aimed at controlling the profitable fur trade. José António Brandão argues persuasively against this view. Drawing from the original French and English sources, Brandão has compiled a vast array of quantitative data about Iroquois raids and mortality rates. He offers a penetrating examination of seventeenth-century Iroquoian attitudes toward foreign policy and warfare, contending that the Iroquois fought New France not primarily to secure their position in a new market economy but for reasons that traditionally fueled Native warfare: to replenish their populations, safeguard hunting territories, protect their homes, gain honor, and seek revenge.
Call number in WMU's library
E99.I7 B77 1997
ISBN
978-0803261778
Publication Date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska
City
Lincoln
Disciplines
History
Citation for published book
Brandão, J. (1997). "Your fyre shall burn no more" : Iroquois policy towards new France and its native allies to 1701 / José António Brandão.
Recommended Citation
Brandao, Jose Antonio, "Your Fyre Shall Burn No More" (1997). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 645.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/645