After Columbus : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.

After Columbus : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.

A collection of essays on the Indian-European relations in colonial North America, which includes "A Moral History of Indian-White Relations Revisited" and "Forked Tongues: Moral Judgment and Indian History". Both deal with the moral dimension in human history, raising various is...

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Main Author: Axtell, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
To 1789
Indians of North America > Government relations > To 1789.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indians of North America > Missions.
Ethnohistory > North America.
Ethnohistory
Indians of North America > Colonial period
Indians of North America > Government relations
Indians of North America > Missions
North America
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword: The Columbian Legacy; The Normative Stance; 1. A Moral History of Indian-White Relations Revisited; 2. Forked Tongues: Moral Judgments in Indian History; New World Crusades; 3. Some Thoughts on the Ethnohistory of Missions; 4. The Scholastic Frontier in Western Massachusetts; 5. White Legend: The Jesuit Missions in Maryland; 6. The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands; 7. Were Indian Conversions Bona Fide?; Confluences; 8. Through Another Glass Darkly: Early Indian Views of Europeans; 9. At the Water's Edge: Trading in the Sixteenth Century.
  • 10. The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire11. Colonial America Without the Indians; Afterword: The Scholar's Obligations to Native Peoples; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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