{"product_id":"republic-of-indians-empires-of-indigenous-law-in-the-early-american-south-hardback-9781512826425","title":"Republic of Indians; Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South (Hardback) 9781512826425","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRepublic of Indians\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEmpires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBradley J. Dixon (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512826425\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 December 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 14 black-and white illustrations, 2 maps\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.9 cm, 0.652 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\"\u003ci\u003eIn Republic of Indians\u003c\/i\u003e, Bradley J. Dixon inverts the conventional story line of early America. Local Native leaders and communities in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century American South were not merely reactive subjects to Spanish and English colonists. Rather, through a close-up comparative frame, Dixon shows how they were active participants in the politics of the colonial regimes, they used colonial legal institutions and protocols to their favor, and, with their colonial partners, they forged a new hybrid colonial political entity—a republic of Indians.\" (Robbie Ethridge, author of From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715) \"In this masterfully researched and thought-provoking work, Bradley J. Dixon not only compares the inner-workings of the Spanish and English empires in the region, but also shows that Native people were central to the social, political, and legal formations of the colonial world. \u003ci\u003eRepublic of Indians\u003c\/i\u003e helps us reimagine the political landscape of the early South.\" (Alejandra Dubcovsky, author of Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South) \"In artful prose, Bradley J. Dixon tells the story of how Native peoples like the Apalachees and Pamunkeys created Indigenous republics in Virginia and Florida by petitioning the Crown to defend their rights against the depredations of the settlers. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eRepublic of Indians\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound challenge to our assumptions about Native political power in the 1600s and 1700s, while showing how interconnected were the histories of the English and the Spanish in the Americas.\" (Craig Yirush, author of Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Roots of Early American Political Theory, 1675–1775)\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\u003eA sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, \u003ci\u003eRepublic of Indians\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Indigenous leaders who wrote their principles into Spanish and English law.\u003cbr\u003e While in the Spanish Empire, Natives were a recognized part of \"la república de indios,\" the \"republic of Indians,\" other Natives across the early American South understood themselves to be joined with European colonists in larger polities, each jealously guarding their own bodies of liberties under royal sanction. Thus, rather than simply rejecting European pretensions to rule them as subjects and vassals, Native Southerners as diverse as the Apalachees, Pamunkeys, Powhatans, and Timucuas redefined their status to become political players in legislative assemblies and the courts of distant monarchs. They pushed for incorporation in larger political systems in which they had a say and were themselves instrumental in creating.\u003cbr\u003e Adapting pre-invasion practices to the technology of writing and the challenges of colonialism, Indigenous petitioners sought exemptions from labor and protection for \"the lands that God gave to them,\" as well as the right to install preferred leaders, avoid enslavement, ally with the Crown against colonists, ease harsh colonial laws, and even amend the terms of treaties and compacts. Bradley J. Dixon shows how their petitions also stand as enduring contributions to American political thought and how it was these \"vassals\" and \"subjects\" who gave meaning to the modern idea of tribal sovereignty. In the South, the Spanish and English empires came to resemble one another precisely because they were both dependent to a remarkable degree on maintaining Indigenous political consent and were founded in large part on Indigenous conceptions of law.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Prologue. \"A Residencia for the Dead\" 1\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Caciques and Kings, 1608–1632\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"Poor Indians,\" 1633–1673\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"Emboldened Indians,\" 1674–1678\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"Neither Vassals nor Subjects,\" 1670–1700\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"As the Spaniards Always Have Done,\" 1700–1715\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Authors of Their Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681236447512,"sku":"9781512826425","price":31.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/republic-of-indians-empires-of-indigenous-law-in-the-early-american-south-hardback-9781512826425","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}