Description |
x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Imagining a distant new world -- Confronting a material new world -- Living with Europeans -- Native voices in a colonial world -- Native peoples in an imperial world -- Separate creations. |
Summary |
"In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers." "Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States." "Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britain's colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America ceased to be Indian country only because the revolutionaries denied the continent's first peoples a place in the nation they were creating." "In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity."--Jacket. |
Subject |
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Chronological Term |
To 1775
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Subject |
Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
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Native Americans -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Nordamerika (DE-588)4042483-2
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Indians of North America -- Colonial period.
(OCoLC)fst01907009
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Politik (DE-588)4046514-7
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Kulturkontakt (DE-588)4033569-0
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Europa (DE-588)4015701-5
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Indianer (DE-588)4026718-0
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Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Subject |
Discoveries in geography. (OCoLC)fst00894950
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Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
(OCoLC)fst00969743
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United States -- Discovery and exploration.
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United States -- Politics and government -- To 1775.
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Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- First contact with Europeans.
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Subject |
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Indians of North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Subject |
Native Americans -- First contact with Europeans.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans.
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Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
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ISBN |
0674006380 (alk. paper) |
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9780674006386 (alk. paper) |
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0674011171 (pbk.) |
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9780674011175 (pbk.) |
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