Cultivating a Landscape of PeaceThis book examines the peculiar new worlds of the Five Nations of the Iroquois, the Dutch, and the French, who shared cultural frontiers in seventeenth century America. Viewing early America from the different perspectives of the diverse peoples who coexisted uneasily during the colonial encounter between Europeans and Indians, he explains a long standing paradox: the apparent belligerence of the Five Nations, a people who saw themselves as promoters