Tecumseh and the Prophet

The Heroic Struggle for America's Heartland

Tecumseh and the Prophet

Cozzens, Peter

Editorial Penguin USA
Fecha de edición agosto 2021 · Edición nº 1

Idioma inglés

EAN 9780525434887
576 páginas
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
Dimensiones 155 mm x 234 mm


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Resumen del libro

An insightful, unflinching portrayal of the remarkable siblings who came closer to altering the course of American history than any other Indian leaders.? --H.W. Brands, author of The Zealot and the Emancipator

The first biography of the great Shawnee leader to make clear that his misunderstood younger brother, Tenskwatawa, was an equal partner in the last great pan-Indian alliance against the United States.

Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But award-winning historian Peter Cozzens now shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat and war leader--admired by the same white Americans he opposed--it was Tenskwatawa, called the Shawnee Prophet, who created a vital doctrine of religious and cultural revitalization that unified the disparate tribes of the Old Northwest. Detailed research of Native American society and customs provides a window into a world often erased from history books and reveals how both men came to power in different but no less important ways.

Cozzens brings us to the forefront of the chaos and violence that characterized the young American Republic, when settlers spilled across the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the British in the War of Independence, disregarding their rightful Indian owners. Tecumseh and the Prophet presents the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat--the two most significant siblings in Native American history, who, Cozzens helps us understand, should be writ large in the annals of America.

Biografía del autor

Peter Cozzens es autor o editor de diecisiete libros sobre la Guerra de Secesión y el Oeste americano, entre ellos Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jacksonx{0026} x02019;s Valley Campaign, This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga o No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River. Su libro más reciente, La Tierra llora. La amarga historia de las Guerras Indias por la conquista del Oeste (Desperta Ferro Ediciones, 2017) ha sido galardonada con el Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History como mejor obra de Historia militar publicada en el mundo anglosajón en 2016. Asimismo, fue incluido en el Smithsonian Top History Book of 2016 y se abrió paso en otras importantes listas de mejor libro del año.





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