The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 Lee Wayne E.
The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 Lee Wayne E. Incorporating archeology, anthropology, and cartography into military history, Wayne E. In this volume, Lee…
Specifikacia The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 Lee Wayne E.
The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 Lee Wayne E.
Incorporating archeology, anthropology, and cartography into military history, Wayne E. In this volume, Lee revisits and updates his "cutting-off way of war" paradigm to recast Indigenous warfare in a framework of the lived realities of Native people rather than with regard to European and settler military strategies and practices.In a mix of classic and new essays, Lee shows that Indigenous people lacked deep reserves of population systems for coercive military recruitment and as such were wary of heavy casualties. Lee's research has been a standard for scholars of Native-settler-colonial wars in the early modern, colonial, and early Republic eras, especially European-Indigenous wars and intra-tribal wars in eastern North America.
A small war Instead, they generally sought to surprise their targets, and the size of the target varied with the size of the attacking force.