Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America Contributor(s): Axtell, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 019513771X ISBN-13: 9780195137712 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $116.81 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2000 Annotation: In the past thirty years historians have come to realize that the shape and temper of early America was determined as much by its Indian natives as it was by its European colonizers. No one has done more to discover and recount this story than James Axtell, one of America's premier ethnohistorians. Natives and Newcomers is a collection of fifteen of his best and most influential essays, available for the first time in one volume. In accessible and often witty prose, Axtell describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans--first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, cultural and religious conversions, military clashes--and probes their short- and long-term consequences for both cultures. The result is a book that shows how encounters between Indians and Europeans ultimately led to the birth of a distinctly American identity. Natives and Newcomers is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Colonial American history and Native American history. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Native American - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) - History | North American |
Dewey: 970.02 |
LCCN: 99056089 |
Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.22" W x 9.22" (1.33 lbs) 432 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
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Publisher Description: In the past thirty years historians have come to realize that the shape and temper of early America was determined as much by its Indian natives as it was by its European colonizers. No one has done more to discover and recount this story than James Axtell, one of America's premier ethnohistorians. Natives and Newcomers is a collection of fifteen of his best and most influential essays, available for the first time in one volume. In accessible and often witty prose, Axtell describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans--first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, cultural and religious conversions, military clashes--and probes their short- and long-term consequences for both cultures. The result is a book that shows how encounters between Indians and Europeans ultimately led to the birth of a distinctly American identity. Natives and Newcomers is an essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses in Colonial American history and Native American history. |