America Before the European Invasions

ISBN-13: 9781138148130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 268 str.

Alice Beck Kehoe

Opis

Settled for many thousands of years by Native Americans, who had developed extensive, varied and long-lasting cultures across the continent, North America's economic development on the eve of the European invasions was not hugely dissimilar to that of the European settlers themselves.  Based on a thorough examination of the archaeological and anthropological evidence, Alice Kehoe's enterprising new volume, tells the complex story of early America and the history of the indigenous peoples who inhabited the continent before the coming of the Europeans. As the only properly integrated textbook on the subject it will provide a valuable resource for students of US history and anthropology.

Spis treści

List of illustrations.

Acknowledgements

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Introduction: History without Documents

1.First Americans

2. The Archaic Period: 7000-1000BCE

3.Nuclear America

4.Early Woodland, 1000-100BC

5.Middle Woodland, 100BC-AD400

6.The West Coast

7.Alaska

8.The Interior West

9.The American Southwest

10.The Mississippian Period, AD 950-1600

11.Late Woodland, to AD 1600

12.Overview: the United States, 1600

13.Issues and Puzzles

Index

O autorze

Alice Kehoe is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has written the major college text North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account.