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After Columbus : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.
Title:
After Columbus : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.
Author:
Axtell, James.
ISBN:
9780198022060
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword: The Columbian Legacy -- The Normative Stance -- 1. A Moral History of Indian-White Relations Revisited -- 2. Forked Tongues: Moral Judgments in Indian History -- New World Crusades -- 3. Some Thoughts on the Ethnohistory of Missions -- 4. The Scholastic Frontier in Western Massachusetts -- 5. White Legend: The Jesuit Missions in Maryland -- 6. The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands -- 7. Were Indian Conversions Bona Fide? -- Confluences -- 8. Through Another Glass Darkly: Early Indian Views of Europeans -- 9. At the Water's Edge: Trading in the Sixteenth Century -- 10. The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire -- 11. Colonial America Without the Indians -- Afterword: The Scholar's Obligations to Native Peoples -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This collection of essays--including four previously unpublshed--by one of our leading ethnohistorians examines a wide range of important and fascinating topics and will serve as an invaluable reader for students of ethnohistory and Native American history.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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