Title No useless mouth : waging war and fighting hunger in the American Revolution / Rachel B. Herrmann.

Publication Info.	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Description	1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered -- Power rising. Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America -- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North -- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South -- Power in flux. Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from food laws in Nova Scotia -- Power waning. Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy -- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone -- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight.
Summary	"Argues that Native American and formerly enslaved communities lost the fight against hunger because white officials in the United States, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms"-- Provided by publisher.
Note	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 1, 2019).
Language	In English.
Subject	United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Indians.
	Food security. (OCoLC)fst01748879
	Indians of North America -- Food. (OCoLC)fst00969750
	Food security -- Sierra Leone -- History -- 18th century.
	American Revolution (United States : 1775-1783) (OCoLC)fst01351668
	Sierra Leone -- History -- To 1896.
Chronological Term	To 1896
Subject	HISTORY -- Military -- United States.
	Food security -- Nova Scotia -- History -- 18th century.
	Nova Scotia -- History -- 1763-1867.
	Sierra Leone. (OCoLC)fst01210248
	Nova Scotia. (OCoLC)fst01206030
	African Americans -- Food -- History -- 18th century.
	Indians of North America -- Food -- History -- 18th century.
	Indians. (OCoLC)fst00969307
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- African Americans.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Food -- History -- 18th century.
Subject	Food security -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Other Form:	Print version: Herrmann, Rachel B. No useless mouth. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501716119 (DLC) 2018060505 (OCoLC)1079855087
ISBN	9781501716133 (electronic book)
	1501716131 (electronic book)
	9781501716126 (electronic book)
	1501716123 (electronic book)
Standard No.	10.7591/9781501716133 doi

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