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Re: Francis Jennings
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Tom Gilmore <[log in to unmask]>
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Thanks,  Jon.  I should have taken time to google FJ, then I'd have answered
my own question:  YES, I did confuse him with another.--Tom

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I didn't always agree with F J's work, but he wrote serious history:
>
>     Jennings, Francis, 1918- The Ambiguous Iroquois empire : the Covenant
> Chain confederation of Indian tribes with English colonies from its
> beginnings to the Lancaster Treaty of 1744 / New York : Norton, c1984.
>
>     Jennings, Francis, 1918- The creation of America : through revolution
> to empire / Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
>
>     Jennings, Francis, 1918- Empire of fortune : crowns, colonies, and
> tribes in the Seven Years War in America / New York : Norton, c1988.
>
>     Jennings, Francis, 1918- The founders of America : how Indians
> discovered the land, pioneered in it, and created great classical
> civilizations, how they were plunged into a Dark Age by invasion and
> conquest, and how they are reviving / New York : Norton, c1993.
>
>     Jennings, Francis, 1918- The invasion of America : Indians,
> colonialism, and the cant of conquest / Chapel Hill : Published for the
> Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the
> University of North Carolina Press, c1975.
>
> --
> Jon Kukla
> www.JonKukla.com
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Tom Gilmore <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I didn't know anyone took anything written by Francis Jennings seriously.
> > Am I confusing him with someone else?   I was under the impression his
> > "findings" are fiction:  fun, good movie plots, but serious history?
> > --Tom Gilmore
> >
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