Natives and Newcomers The Cultural Origins of North America

Name: Natives and Newcomers The Cultural Origins of North America
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ISBN: 9780195137712

ISBN-10: 019513771X

ISBN-13: 9780195137712

Edition: 2001

Authors: James Axtell

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In the past thirty years, historians have come to realize that the shape and temper of early America were determined as much by its Indian natives as by its European colonizers. No one has done more to discover and tell this new story than James Axtell, one of our premiere ethnohistorians. In Natives and Newcomers, a selection of his best essays, Axtell describes in accessible and often witty prose the major encounters between Indians and Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes -- and probes their short- and long-term consequences for both cultures. Every essay is based on original…

Book details

List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.91" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Illustrations list


Preface


Prologue



Contacts


Introduction



Imagining the Other: First Encounters



Babel of Tongues: Communciating with the Indians



Consumption


Introduction



At the Water's Edge: Trading in the Sixteenth Century



The First Consumer Revolution: The Seventeenth Century



Making Do: Trade in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast



Conversions


Introduction



The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures



Dr. Wheelock's Little Red School



The White Indians



Clashes


Introduction



The Spanish Incursion



The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire



The Moral Dilemmas of Scalping



Consequences


Introduction



The Columbian Mosaic



Native Reactions to the Invasion of America



The Indian impact on English Colonial Culture


Notes


Index