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"Daniel Barr has given us a brilliant and powerful synthesis of the Iroquois struggles for survival and independence. Readers will be enthralled with this compelling account that places the Iroquois League at the center of the European contest for North America." -- David Dixon, Author of Never Come to Peace Again: Pontiac's Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Wars of the Iroquois Born from Blood Guns and Furs The Great Mourning War The Longhouse under Siege The Long Neutrality The Longhouse Divided The Longhouse in Flames Epilogue: The Longhouse Endures

About the Author

Daniel P. Barr is Assistant Professor of History at Robert Morris University, Pittsburgh. His research interests include American Indian history and the early American frontier. He is editor of The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory and author of The Ends of the American Earth: War and Society on the Pittsburgh Frontier, both forthcoming.

Reviews

This work presents a synthesis of Iroquois military history from the period of initial contact with Europeans to the close of the American Revolution.
*The Journal of American History*

Daniel P. Barr's Unconquered: The Iroquois League at War in Colonial America joins others in the Modern Military Tradition series, exploring the nature of Iroquois warfare and reviewing nearly two hundred years of conflict during colonial times in this country. The Iroquois conducted wars against the French, English, Americans and others: from economic consequences of rivalries to the foundations of war which dictated Iroquois League manners, Unconquered provides a scholarly review of history and cultural influences and is a 'must' for any surveying Native American culture and patterns of war.
*California Bookwatch*