Lt. Henry Timberlake's Memoirs provide the most detailed account of Cherokee life in the eighteenth century. Timberlake visited the Cherokee Overhill towns for three months in 1761-62 and accompanied three Cherokee leaders to London to meet with King George III and other political figures. He died in September 1765; around the time the Memoirs were originally published.This first modern edition of Timberlake's Memoirs is abundantly illustrated with portraits; maps; and photographs of historical; archaeological; and reproduced artifacts; bringing a new dimension to Timberlake's rich portrayal. Assembled for an exhibit produced by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian; this collection of period artifacts; artwork; and traditional items made by contemporary Cherokee artists is a stunning representation of the material culture--both native and British--of the French and Indian War period. A detailed introduction and extensive editorial notes help interpret this 250-year-old chronicle for the modern reader; drawing heavily from historical research and archaeological investigations of the last half-century while still including insights offered by Samuel Cole Williams in the original American version published in 1927.
#992211 in Books The University of North Carolina Press 2004-09-06Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.25 x 1.00 x 6.00l; 1.16 #File Name: 0807855383368 pages
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. The prehistory of Anglo history in the New WorldBy Harry EagarSugar is grown in more than 100 countries today; and its history is; in some sense; the history of the expansion toward globalism. It took thousands of years to migrate from (probably) New Guinea to India; hundreds to then reach the Mediterranean; only scores to traverse the Atlantic; first hopping to the islands of Madeira and the Canaries; then; on to the Caribbean and the Mainland.For readers in the United States; sugar shows up in the late 17th century or even later. England's richest American colony; Barbados; was not settled until 1630; did not start producing sugar for a generation after that. Barbadians later moved to South Carolina; bringing ideas of slavery and agriculture that influenced American history profoundly.However; sugar had been in the New World (if you count the previously unknown islands like Madeira) for two centuries before English-speaking people became intimately concerned. The history of those two centuries is Spanish; Portuguese and African; and most of the essayists in 'Tropical Babylon' are in the Latin tradition.The Barbadians learned about sugar from the Portuguese or perhaps the Dutch; who seized Portugal's sugar plantations in Brazil for a while. As the essayists show here; there were several sugar traditions for the English (and roughly simultaneously the French) to learn from.The approach of 'Tropical Babylons' is primarily economic; but there is a great deal of social and even some architectural history here.These essays are pitched to scholars and students; and fairly specialized ones at that; yet the story of sugar is rewarding in itself; so much so that a reader who 'likes history' will find a lot of miscellaneous facts; perhaps an 'ah ha!' moment or two that illuminates his understanding of better known (to readers of early American) history.
