Description
Edited and with an Introduction and Annotations by Kathryn E. Holland Braund
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the contact period.
“Adair’s ‘History’ is a crucial account of America’s southeastern Indian tribes—the Cherokee, Catawba, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw—during the 18th century….Adair’s prose falls somewhere between Edward Gibbon’s and James Fenimore Cooper’s: by turns magisterial, windy and vividly concrete….Braund, the editor of this fine edition….has mined the archives to enlighten readers on Adair’s years as a major player on the Anglo-Indian frontier—roughly 1738 to 1768.”—The Wall Street Journal
“The community of southeastern scholars owes a debt of gratitude…for this unparalleled edition of a book justly described as being ‘one of the most valuable primary accounts of the southeastern Indians.’ …Braund’s introductory essay is the most comprehensive analysis of Adair’s remarkable life and work that has yet been published [and her] skillful work has produced what will remain the authoritative version of Adair’s great book for decades to come.”—The Journal of Southern History
ISBN: 978-0-8173-5578-4
