Description:
Mancall explores the liquor trade's devastating impact on the Indian communities of colonial America.
Brief description: Peter C. Mancall is Professor of History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Land of Rivers: America in Word and Image, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America, and Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, all from Cornell.
Review Quotes:
In my own experience Deadly Medicine works very well with an undergraduate audience.... Although, as Mancall acknowledges, it is still difficult to determine what Indians themselves thought, he has done an admirable job trying to understand and explain patterns of alcohol consumption.
--Alison Games "American Indian Quarterly Review"