Indian Treaties Printed By Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762

Step into Franklin's bustling Philadelphia print shop and listen as diplomacy is set in type. Franklin stands behind every page. Between 1736 and 1762, the future Founding Father served as benjamin franklin printer to a series of native american treaties that defined relations between provincial officials and Indigenous nations, leaving a unique documentary record of power, persuasion and contested land. Julian P. Boyd's Indian Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762 is a meticulously assembled historical document collection, presenting these negotiations as a documentary history of treaties at the heart of colonial Indian diplomacy. Framed by colonial Pennsylvania history and eighteenth century America, the treaties reveal encounters between cultures, the language of alliance and surrender, and the workings of early American printing history. At once a colonial American history book and a native American history reference, it is a research source on treaties for American history students, scholars and readers interested in how words on a page could redirect empires. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For the casual lover of history it offers vivid voices from the past; for researchers it gathers primary materials otherwise scattered and hard to access. As both working reference and shelf-worthy volume, it stands as a monument to Franklin's press, to colonial Indian diplomacy, and to the printed native American treaties that changed a continent.