Bruce Johansen

The Native Peoples of North America

A History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Covering Central America, the United States, and Canada, this book not only provides an introduction to the history of North American Indians, but also offers a description of the material and intellectual ways that Native American cultures have influenced the life and institutions of people across the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538990
• ISBN-10: 0813538998
• Artikelnr.: 21007608

Autorenporträt

Johansen, Bruce

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Early Indigenous North America: An Overview
2. Mexico and Mesoamerica: Beginnings to European Contact
3. Native America Meets Europe: The Colonial Era
4. The Transfer of Ideas: Native Confederacies and the Evolution of
Democracy
5. The Explosion Westward: The Accelerating Speed of Frontier Movement
6. The Northwest Coast and California
7. The Frontier Closes on the Southwest and Great Plains
8. The Rise of the "Vanishing Race": Native American Adaptations to
Assimilation
9. A People's Revival—1961 to 1990: Native Self-Determination
10. Majority Culture Borrowings from Native American Peoples Cultures
11. Contemporary Issues in Native America
Selected Bibliography
Index