Bruce Johansen

The Native Peoples of North America

A History

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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.

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

Bruce Elliott Johansen is an American academic and author. He is the Frederick W. Kayser Professor of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is the author or editor of many books and articles, notably on environmental and Native American issues. 

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