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Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643
Making a radical departure form traditional approaches to colonial American history, this book looks back at Indian-white relations from the perspective of the Indians themselves. In doing so, Salisbury reaches some startling new conclusions about a period of crucial--yet often overlooked--contact between two irreconcilably different cultures.
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
March 15th 1984
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1982)
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A fascinating and of course sometimes horrifying read. Especially sitting in Boston and reading about the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the two "virgin soil epidemics" in the early 17th century which in some areas killed up to 90% of the Native American population. The author considers many previous sources in trying to come up with population estimates and notes when there is only one source for anything. I also learned a little about the formation of our neighbor stat...more
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Salisbury’s central argument revolves around a few contentions:
- the decimation of the Native American population was primarily due to disease, which in turn created sufficient vacuum for European military exploitation of the surviving native population;
-that the Puritan worldview was greatly influenced by a religious utopian view of the establishment of New England;
- and that the economic and social revolutions of Europe which found new ground in North America (som...more
- the decimation of the Native American population was primarily due to disease, which in turn created sufficient vacuum for European military exploitation of the surviving native population;
-that the Puritan worldview was greatly influenced by a religious utopian view of the establishment of New England;
- and that the economic and social revolutions of Europe which found new ground in North America (som...more
This was a book I had from a class I took in college, but I read it pretty superficially then, and now that I'm more interested in the subject matter, I thought I'd revisit it. The interesting thing here is all the material about that ignored century from about 1500-1600, when all of these relationships between indians and english/french people started. At least in high school, everyone acts as if the relations between natives and europeans in what's now the united states started with Jamestown ...more
Read for a class in college. The writing isn't great, but the subject matter is fascinating.
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