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Indian Captive, Indian King

Peter Williamson in America and Britain

Timothy J. Shannon

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$45.00 • £39.95 • €40.95

ISBN 9780674976320

Publication Date: 01/15/2018

360 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

22 halftones, 2 maps

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Timothy J. Shannon is Professor of History at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA.

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Listen to Timothy Shannon discuss Peter Williamson’s life on the podcast New Books in Native American Studies
On the American history and culture podcast The Way of Improvement Leads Home, listen to Professor Shannon explain how Peter Williamson’s life, which spanned both sides of the Atlantic, illustrates the “shrinking” of the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century

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