The World Turned Upside Down

by Colin G. Calloway

Through a collection of speeches, letters, and primary accounts, and with a revised introduction that draws on an outpouring of scholarship over the past twenty years, Colin Calloway provides insight into the underrepresented Native American voices of the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. With four new text documents and four new visual source documents, the volume continues to portray such themes as loss of land, war and peace, missionaries and Christianity, the education of Native American youth, European technology, European alcohol, and political changes within Indian societies in Early America. Revised Questions for Consideration and an updated Selected Bibliography, along with a new Chronology of Encounters between Indians and Colonists, serve to further support student learning.

Genres: History, Native American, Historical, Nonfiction

220 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 1994

About the author

Colin G. Calloway is John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. His previous books include A Scratch of the Pen and The Victory with No Name.

Reviews

[Andrew Kuenzi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good Sources

This book is a great compilation of the interactions between the European colonists and the Natives of America. I think it is geared specifically towards people studying the topic. The author does a good job of giving each story/source some context and then describing the implications of the interaction.

[Rick Wong · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to read this for school. It was all right. It gave the idea of how the Indians felt from their point of view.