{"product_id":"pacifist-prophet-papunhank-and-the-quest-for-peace-in-early-america-hardback-9781496222862","title":"Pacifist Prophet; Papunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America (Hardback) 9781496222862","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePapunhank and the Quest for Peace in Early America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard W. Pointer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496222862\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 November 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e424 pages, 2 photographs, 5 figures, 3 maps, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.9 cm, 0.804 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"This intriguing biography of the Munsee leader Papunhank (1705–75) adds another rich layer to recent scholarship on the complex world between the Delaware and Ohio Rivers in the middle of the eighteenth century. . . . A very useful work for college and graduate courses.\"-D. R. Mandell, \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e ushers onto the American stage a forgotten Native leader who went not on the warpath but on the peace path. The book has much to teach us about early America-and perhaps, too, about our own turbulent times.”-James H. Merrell, author of \u003ci\u003eInto the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“With engaging prose, scrupulous research, and great sensitivity, Pointer treats the life of a single Native American man seeking peace, stability, family, and place in a world of migration, famine, pestilence, and war.”-Gregory Evans Dowd, author of \u003ci\u003eA Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In \u003ci\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e Richard Pointer weaves a compelling biography of the little-known Munsee and Moravian leader Papunhank, who traversed the varied religious, political, and geographic terrain from Philadelphia to the Ohio Valley in the turbulent middle decades of the eighteenth century.”-Rachel M. Wheeler, author of \u003ci\u003eTo Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePacifist Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the untold history of peaceable Native Americans in the eighteenth century, as explored through the world of Papunhank (ca. 1705–75), a Munsee and Moravian prophet, preacher, reformer, and diplomat.\u003c\/b\u003e Papunhank’s life was dominated by a search for a peaceful homeland in Pennsylvania and the Ohio country amid the upheavals of the era between the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution.\u003cbr\u003e His efforts paralleled other Indian quests for autonomy but with a crucial twist: he was a pacifist committed to using only nonviolent means. Such an approach countered the messages of other Native prophets and ran against the tide in an early American world increasingly wrecked with violence, racial hatred, and political turmoil. Nevertheless, Papunhank was not alone. He followed and contributed to a longer and wider indigenous peace tradition.\u003cbr\u003e Richard W. Pointer shows how Papunhank pushed beyond the pragmatic pacifism of other Indians and developed from indigenous and Christian influences a principled pacifism that became the driving force of his life and leadership. Hundreds of Native people embraced his call to be “a great Lover of Peace” in their quests for home. Against formidable odds, Papunhank’s prophetic message spoke boldly to Euro-American and Native centers of power and kept many Indians alive during a time when their very survival was constantly threatened. Papunhank’s story sheds critical new light on the responses of some Munsees, Delawares, Mahicans, Nanticokes, and Conoys for whom the “way of war” was no way at all.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures    \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction    \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Munsees’\u003cbr\u003e World    \u003cbr\u003e 2. Becoming a Prophet    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Building Alliances    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Captives Together    \u003cbr\u003e 5. From Prophet to Guardian    \u003cbr\u003e 6. New Trials    \u003cbr\u003e 7. Ohio Endings    \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599905779992,"sku":"9781496222862","price":26.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pacifist-prophet-papunhank-and-the-quest-for-peace-in-early-america-hardback-9781496222862","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}