Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801480442 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Book by Mancall, Peter C.
Although, as Mancall acknowledges, it is still difficult to determine what Indians themselves thought, he has done an admirable job trying to understand and explain patterns of alcohol consumption."Alison Games, American Indian Quarterly Review, Summer and Fall 1999"An important work of scholarship, with powerful, concise, and objective insights into the complicated history of alcohol use among Native American peoples. Impeccably researched, cogently argued and clearly written, Peter Mancall's book is both an eye-opener for the lay reader and an invaluable resource for the expert."Michael Dorris, author of The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. "The eagerness of Colonial traders to sell alcohol to Natives, and the Natives' willingness to part with hard-earned furs to obtain
"A Sober, Somber Story" according to Chimonsho. Despite the subject, or actually because of it, this is a very sober look at early American history. Most accounts of Indian-European relations note the liquor trade's deleterious effects on indigenous societies. Mancall has finally foregrounded the topic and the issues it raises, and the picture is disturbing and tragic. For centuries observers have debated the physiological aspects of Indian vulnerability to alcohol. But there is no doubt that combined with land loss, warfare, devastating disease epidemics and ongoing assaults on their cultures, Indians have suffered greatly from strong spirits pushed at them by Europeans. Liquo