American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780415927505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 520 str.

Fredrick E. Hoxie; Peter C. Mancall; James Merrell

Opis

This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and disease.

Spis treści

Part 1 Agency and Conquest 1850-1900, Part 2 Reservation Cultures 1880 -1930, Part 3 Gender and Culture Change, Part 4 Religious Innovation and Survival, Part 5 Cultural and Political Transformations 1900 -1950, Part 6 Indian Activism and Cultural Resurgence, Part 7 Perspectives on Native America 2000.

O autorze

James Merrell is the Lucy Maynard Professor at Vassar College. His books include The Indians' New World, the winner of the Bancroft and Frederick Jackson Turner prizes, and Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Colonial Pennsylvania Frontier. Peter Mancall is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His book, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History. Frederick Hoxie is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate Indians, 1880-1920 and Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America.