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Author Axtell, James.

Title Natives and newcomers : the cultural origins of North America / James Axtell.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  970.02 AXT    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  970.02 A972N    Check Shelf
Description xi, 418 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-409) and index.
Contents Imagining the other: first encounters -- Babel of tongues: communicating with the Indians -- At the water's edge: trading in the sixteenth century -- The first consumer revolution: the seventeenth century -- Making do: trade in the eighteenth-century Southeast -- The invasion within: the contest of cultures -- Dr. Wheelock's little red school -- The white Indians -- The Spanish incursion -- The rise and fall of the Powhatan empire -- The moral dilemmas of scalping -- The Columbian mosaic -- Native reactions to the invasion of America -- The Indian impact on English colonial culture.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History.
Subject Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
North America -- Civilization -- Indian influences.
North America -- Civilization -- European influences.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- First contact with Europeans.
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
Subject Indians of North America -- History.
North America -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Subject Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
ISBN 0195137701 cloth alkaline paper
019513771X paperback alkaline paper
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