Natives and Newcomers
The Cultural Origins of North America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 September 2000
- ISBN 9780195137712
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 234x154x20 mm
- Weight 606 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, 2 maps 0
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Short description:
This is a collection of the best essays of one of America's premier ethnohistorians. In accessible and often witty prose, Axtell examines the major encounters between Indians and Europeans- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes-and proves their short- and long- term consequences for both cultures. Using the results of his extensive research in wide-ranging primary source
material, he uncovers the way encounters between Indians and Europeans ultimately led to the birth of a distinctly American identity.
Long description:
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 research in a wide variety of primary sources, including maps, museum
artifacts, archaeological sites, pictures (many of which are reproduced), traders' account books, and oral traditions. The end result is a book which shows how encounters between Indians and Europeans ultimately shaped a distinctly American identity.
Table of Contents:
Illustrations list
Preface
Prologue
Part I. Contacts
Introduction
Imagining the Other: First Encounters
Babel of Tongues: Communciating with the Indians
Part II. Consumption
Introductin
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
Part III. Conversions
Introduction
The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures
Dr. Wheelock's Little Red School
The White Indians
Part IV. Clashes
Introduction
The Spanish Incursion
The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire
The Moral Dilemmas of Scalping
Part V. Consequences
Introduction
The Columbian Mosaic
Native Reactions to the Invasion of America
The Indian impact on English Colonial Culture
Notes
Index
