Robert M. Owens is Associate Professor of History at Wichita State University. He specializes in colonial U.S. history and the Early Republic. He is the author of Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy (OU Press, 2007). His articles have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic and the Journal of Illinois History.
Robert M. Owens locates the explosion of Indian-hating on the part
of U.S. officials and Anglo-American settlers, and their anxiety
over a possible general war with Native peoples in
trans-Appalachian North America, in an all-consuming psychology of
fear. In this provocative and powerful telling, American expansion
was less about civilization, destiny, or dominance than about an
overwhelming obsession with security."" - Andrew Cayton, coauthor
(with Fred Anderson) of The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in
North America, 1500 - 1800
With compelling prose, Robert M. Owens surveys pan-Indian
movements, Indian alliances with European empires, slave
rebellions, and the responses such coalitions generated among
British colonists and American citizens in the Revolutionary and
early national eras. One empire's alliance with Indians, one tribal
nation's coalition with another, and one renegade European's
collusion with slaves became in Anglo-American chambers a
conspiratorial act of war. Red Dreams, White Nightmares illuminates
the unsettling nature of early American frontiers. By the time of
the War of 1812, fear became a defining feature of the early
American relationship with independent Indian peoples, and the fear
lasted for decades."" - Gregory Evans Dowd, author of War under
Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire
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