The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas 2 Part Hardback Set
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas 2 Part Hardback Set
Wilcomb E. Washburn, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
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USDThis 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
Reviews & endorsements
"...experienced researchers will be gratified to have this work at hand as a tiller for steering through the seas of recent research and setting course for the scholarly horizon." J.H. O'Donnell III, Choice
"More than a thousand pages long, published in two parts as a boxed set, it looks authoritative, perhaps even definitive." Colin G. Calloway, The Journal of American History
"The series will provide readers accustomed to monographic studies with a valuable `big picture' and should prove an important reference tool for a wide readership." Paige Raibmon, BC Studies
"...this superb account of the Native peoples of North America has no rivals....A must for every reference section and a bargain for private scholarly and lay libraries." Jamie S.Scott, Religious Studies Review
"The essays are superb and demonstrate a profound mastery of the subject areas, including a good balance between interpretation and factual data....The result is a clarification of history that is quite remarkable and proves exceedingly useful for grasping the larger issues that have affected Native peoples....In summary, then, this is a superb collection of essays." Letters in Canada 1997
"All the chapters are written by acknowledges experts, and each is packed with authoritative information." American Reference Book Annual
Product details
October 1996Multiple copy pack
9780521344401
1072 pages
244 × 165 × 90 mm
2.095kg
42 b/w illus. 53 maps
Temporarily unavailable - available from July 2021
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
- 9. The Great Plains from the arrival of the horse to 1885 Loretta Fowler
- 10. The greater Southwest and California from the beginning of European settlement to the 1880s Howard R. Lamar with Sam Truett
- 11. The Northwest from the Beginning of Trade with Europeans to the 1880s Robin A. Fisher
- 12. The reservation period, 1880–1960 Frederick E. Hoxie
- 13. The Northern interior, 1600 to modern times Arthur J. Ray
- 14. The Arctic from Norse contact to modern times David Damas
- 15. The native American renaissance, 1960–1994, Wilcomb E. Washburn
- Bibliographical essays.
