The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
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.
- First comprehensive history of Native Peoples living north of the present Mexico border
- First study which compares how Indians have fared in the United States and Canada
- Considers major patterns in history of native peoples of North America including the development of a pan-Indian identity
- Bruce Trigger is a very prolific and well-known author
Product details
February 1997Hardback
9780521573924
586 pages
235 × 159 × 43 mm
0.933kg
42 b/w illus. 28 maps
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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.