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Title

American encounters : natives and newcomers from European contact to Indian removal, 1500-1850 / edited by Peter C. Mancall and James H. Merrell.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Mancall, Peter C.
• Merrell, James Hart, 1953-

Description

xiv, 594 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

A collection of articles that describe the relationships and encounters between Native Americans and Europeans throughout American history.

Subject

• 1813-1903
• Geschichte 1500-1850
• Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples
• Indians of North America > History
• Indians of North America > Relocation

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 563-567) and index.

Contents

The Indians' old world: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans / Neal Salisbury -- The Indians' new world: the Catawba experience / James H. Merrell -- Ecological imperialism: the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby -- Amerindian views of French culture in the seventeenth century / Cornelius J. Jaenen -- Iroquois women, European women / Natalie Zemon Davis -- The berdache and the Illinois Indian tribe during the last half of the seventeenth century / Raymond Hauser -- Generations of faith: the Christian Indians of Martha's Vineyard / James P. Ronda -- Of missionaries and their cattle: Ojibwa perceptions of a missionary as evil shaman / Rebecca Kugel -- A new perspective on Indian-white contact: cultural symbols and colonial trade / Christopher L. Miller and George R. Hamell -- The bewitching tyranny of custom: the social costs of Indian drinking in colonial America / Peter C. Mancall -- The frontier exchange economy of the lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth century / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. -- The three lives of Keowee: loss and recovery in the eighteenth-century Cherokee villages / M. Thomas Hatley -- The first whalemen of Nantucket / Daniel Vickers -- War and culture: the Iroquois experience / Daniel K. Richter -- Ruling "the republic of Indians" in seventeenth-century Florida / Amy Turner Bushnell -- The white Indians of colonial America / James Axtell -- Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon -- Thinking and believing: nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh / Gregory Evans Dowd -- The Glaize in 1792: a composite Indian community / Helen Hornbeck Tanner -- The right to a name: the Narragansett people and Rhode Island officials in the Revolutionary era / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau -- Cherokee anomie, 1794-1810: new roles for red men, red women, and black slaves / William G. McLoughlin -- The staff of leadership: Indian authority in the missions of Alta California / Steven W. Hackel -- Levantamiento!: the 1824 Chumash uprising reconsidered / James A. Sandos -- Cherokee women and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue -- The winning of the West: the expansion of the western Sioux in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Richard White.

ISBN

• 0415923743 (cl : acid-free paper)
• 0415923751 (pb : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^99028708^

OCLC

41173763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library