Defense Date
3-31-2011
Graduation Date
Spring 2011
Availability
Immediate Access
Submission Type
thesis
Degree Name
MA
Department
History
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Holly A. Mayer
Committee Member
Holly A. Mayer
Committee Member
Perry K. Blatz
Keywords
American Revolution, British military, Guy Johnson, Iroquois, Joseph Brant, Sir. William Johnson
Abstract
The American Revolution was revolutionizing for multiple reasons, and the changes in intercultural relations between the British Army, imperial and provincial leadership, and the Iroquois were some of them. The colonial go-between who had mediated exchanges between these two groups since contact and who could represent multiple parties fairly was destroyed during the American Revolution. Joseph Brant, a Mohawk, and Guy Johnson, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the British, were two go-betweens whose powers and roles as mediators were subverted, even extinguished, by the conclusion of the War for Independence. This thesis examines the events that precipitated this fate for Brant and Johnson and changed the future of intercultural mediation with the Iroquois in New York.
Format
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Lusk, J. (2011). Mediation and Middlemen Undone: The Demise of the Colonial Go-Between in Revolutionary New York (Master's thesis, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/844