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The Cambridge History Of The Native Peoples Of The Americas #1.1
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume 1: North America
This 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 provides a comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.
1072 pages, Hardcover
First published October 13, 1996
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About the author
Bruce G. Trigger
30 books26 followersBruce Graham Trigger, OC OQ FRSC was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.
He received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and then took a position with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, and remained there for the rest of his career.
He received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He spent the following year teaching at Northwestern University and then took a position with the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, and remained there for the rest of his career.
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September 22, 2018
Bruce Trigger and Wilcomb Washburn have compiled an expansive contextual history of the Americans who were here first.
Part 1 of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas offers significant detail about Indian interaction with Europeans including Spanish, French, and English throughout much of North America.
There is ample confirmation that the Pilgrims at Plymouth were latecomers to the party.
Most appealing to me is the chapter by Bruce G. Trigger and William R. Swagerty that presents the fullness and the tragedy of “Entertaining strangers: North America in the sixteenth century.”
An excerpt:
“At first many Native people imagined Europeans to be supernatural beings or the returning spirits of the dead, a view that was reinforced by kidnappings and the spread of new diseases in the wake of some European visits. By the end of the century the impact of European activities along the eastern and southern periphery of the continent had already brought about many changes in Native life…While the negative impacts of European contact were very great, Native people who had established direct contact with Europeans had already settled in their own minds who Europeans were and evolved the pragmatic modes of interacting with them that were to shape their responses to growing European intrusion in the following centuries.”
Part 1 (there are two parts) of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas includes sections on Indians’ conceptual views of history, indigenous agricultural societies, and the movement of European colonists into the Mississippi River Valley during 1780-1880.
Each of the eight sections has a mouthwatering bibliography.
Read more of my book reviews here:
www.richardsubber.com
Part 1 of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas offers significant detail about Indian interaction with Europeans including Spanish, French, and English throughout much of North America.
There is ample confirmation that the Pilgrims at Plymouth were latecomers to the party.
Most appealing to me is the chapter by Bruce G. Trigger and William R. Swagerty that presents the fullness and the tragedy of “Entertaining strangers: North America in the sixteenth century.”
An excerpt:
“At first many Native people imagined Europeans to be supernatural beings or the returning spirits of the dead, a view that was reinforced by kidnappings and the spread of new diseases in the wake of some European visits. By the end of the century the impact of European activities along the eastern and southern periphery of the continent had already brought about many changes in Native life…While the negative impacts of European contact were very great, Native people who had established direct contact with Europeans had already settled in their own minds who Europeans were and evolved the pragmatic modes of interacting with them that were to shape their responses to growing European intrusion in the following centuries.”
Part 1 (there are two parts) of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas includes sections on Indians’ conceptual views of history, indigenous agricultural societies, and the movement of European colonists into the Mississippi River Valley during 1780-1880.
Each of the eight sections has a mouthwatering bibliography.
Read more of my book reviews here:
www.richardsubber.com
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