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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Native Societies of the Americas Before Contact | |
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| The Coming of Humans to the Americas and the Agricultural Revolution | |
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| Sedentary Imperial Societies | |
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| Landholding Patterns and Forms of Production and Distribution | |
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| Empires and Warfare | |
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| Semisedentary Societies | |
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| The Primacy of Community and Lineage | |
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| Nonsedentary Hunters and Gatherers | |
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| The Native Population of the Americas on the Eve of Contact | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Conquests and Initial Establishment of Colonies in Latin America | |
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| The European Setting | |
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| Iberia's Early Efforts at Exploration | |
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| Spaniards in the Caribbean | |
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| Organization and Functioning of Spanish Expeditions of Conquest | |
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| Conquest of the Sedentary Imperial Societies | |
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| Conquest and Semisedentary and Nonsedentary Peoples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Colonial Spanish America and Its Impact on the Sedentary Imperial Societies | |
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| Spanish Colonists and Their Expectations | |
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| Retention of Indigenous Provincial Organization | |
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| Fragmentation and Its Impact | |
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| Demographic Collapse and Its Consequences | |
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| Tribute and Labor Service Systems | |
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| Urban Indians | |
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| Race Mixture and Its Recognition | |
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| Creative Adaptations at the Local Level | |
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| Changes in Material Culture | |
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| The Christianization of Native Peoples | |
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| The Cult of the Saints | |
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| Language and Cultural Change in Mesoamerican Communities | |
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| The Character of Native Revolts | |
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| The Impact of Eighteenth-Century Population Growth | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Spanish and Portuguese Interactions with Semisedentary and Nonsedentary Peoples | |
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| Migration and an Enduring Frontier among the Maya of the Yucatan Peninsula | |
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| Muted Transformations among the Pacified Maya | |
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| The Portuguese and the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil | |
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| Spanish Settlement among the Guaran� of Greater Paraguay | |
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| The Araucanians of Southern Chile | |
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| Limited Spanish Success against the Hunter-Gatherers of the Mexican Desert North | |
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| Missions in Spanish and Portuguese America | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Native Responses to Settlement in the East and Southwest in North America | |
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| Spain in Eastern North America | |
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| Spain in the American Southwest | |
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| The French Arrival in Canada | |
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| The French Avoidance of Conflicts over Land and Authority | |
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| The Fur Trade and the Huron | |
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| French Warfare Against the Iroquois | |
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| French Settlement Along the St. Lawrence in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Canadian West and Mississippi River Valley in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Dutch in New Netherland | |
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| The Dutch Fur Trade at Fort Orange | |
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| Dutch Settlement around New Amsterdam and Its Impact on the Native Peoples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The British and the Indians of Eastern North America | |
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| Early English Undertakings in North America | |
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| Jamestown and English Settlement in the Chesapeake | |
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| Puritan Settlement in New England and the Rapid Transformation of the Local Peoples | |
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| The Iroquois in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Carolinas in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| The Native Peoples West of the Appalachians in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Enduring Connections between the New World and the Old | |
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| The Movement of Peoples | |
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| The Movement of Diseases | |
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| The Movement of Animals | |
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| The Movement of Plants | |
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| The Movement of Precious Metals | |
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| By Way of Conclusion�Enduring Patterns in the Americas | |
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| Index | |