Browsing HIS Faculty Publications by Author "Owens, Robert M."
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Book review: Indigenous prosperity and American conquest: Indian women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Owens, Robert M. (UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2019-04-01)Scholars have long chronicled and analyzed the contest for the Ohio Valley and the dispossession of its Native peoples. Susan Sleeper-Smith is the first to provide an in-depth examination of Indian women and how directly ... -
Book review: The Divided Dominion: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Early Virginia
Owens, Robert M. (University of Illinois Press, 2016)In The Divided Dominion, Ethan A. Schmidt seeks to illustrate a common thread in the first century of English colonization in Virginia, namely the popular appeal and impact of violence toward Indians. The brutal race war ... -
Book review: Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America
Owens, Robert M. (Southern Historical Association, 2017-11)Thomas Jefferson, Revolutionary: A Radical's Struggle to Remake America by Kevin R. C. Gutzman is not a biography of the famous Founder, nor does it pretend to be. Rather, it offers five critical essays covering significant ... -
Book review: William Henry Harrison and the Conquest of the Ohio Country: Frontier Fighting in the War of 1812
Owens, Robert M. (Western History Association, 2014)An abstract for this item is not available. -
Book review: Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Owens, Robert M. (Western History Association, 2013-03)Book review: Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. x + 242 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendix, ... -
The death of captain big tree: Suicide and the perils of US–Iroquois diplomacy in the early 1790s
Owens, Robert M. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 2021-04-01)Many works examine how murder complicated Indian–White diplomacy, but historians have largely ignored the impact of suicide. Suicide challenged intercultural relations because of differing interpretations. For Whites, it ...