After Columbus [[electronic resource] ] : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910454364903321
• Autore: Axtell James
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 1-280-53991-7; 0-19-802206-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.897; 973.0497
• Soggetti: Ethnohistory; Indians of North America; Indians of North America - Government relations - To 1789; Indians of North America - Government relations - To 1789 - North America; Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Indians of North America - Missions; Ethnic & Race Studies; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 issues.