G. Trigger / E. Washburn (eds.)

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

Herausgeber: Trigger, Bruce G.; Washburn, Wilcomb E.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.

Table of contents:
1. Native view of history Peter Nabokov; 2. Native peoples in Euro-American historiography Wilcomb E. Washburn and Bruce G. Trigger; 3. The first Americans and the differentiation of hunter-gatherer cultures Dean R. Snow; 4. Indigenous farmers Linda S. Cordell and Bruce D. Smith; 5. Agricultural chiefdoms of the Eastern woodlands Bruce D. Smith; 6. Entertaining strangers: North America in the sixteenth century Bruce G. Trigger and William R. Swagerty; 7. Native people and European settlers in Eastern North America, 1600-1783 Neal Salisbury; 8. The expansion of European colonization to the Mississippi valley, 1780-1880 Michael D. Green.

The first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It explores their history prior to the arrival of Europeans, the relations between native peoples and colonial regimes and national governments, and the development of a pan-Indian identity. Part I establishes the current state of knowledge about native American history and explores the interaction between European and native Americans in the sixteenth century.

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 586
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1093g
• ISBN-13: 9780521573924
• ISBN-10: 0521573920
• Artikelnr.: 21730694

Inhaltsangabe

1. Native view of history Peter Nabokov; 2. Native peoples in Euro-American
historiography Wilcomb E. Washburn and Bruce G. Trigger; 3. The first
Americans and the differentiation of hunter-gatherer cultures Dean R. Snow;
4. Indigenous farmers Linda S. Cordell and Bruce D. Smith; 5. Agricultural
chiefdoms of the Eastern woodlands Bruce D. Smith; 6. Entertaining
strangers: North America in the sixteenth century Bruce G. Trigger and
William R. Swagerty; 7. Native people and European settlers in Eastern
North America, 1600-1783 Neal Salisbury; 8. The expansion of European
colonization to the Mississippi valley, 1780-1880 Michael D. Green.