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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458417303321

Autore

Axtell James

Titolo

Beyond 1492 [[electronic resource] ] : encounters in colonial North America / / James Axtell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992

ISBN

0-19-028197-9

1-280-52664-5

0-19-535982-8

1-4294-0012-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Disciplina

970.02

Soggetti

Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Indians of North America - History - 16th century

Electronic books.

North America Discovery and exploration

North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. History as Imagination -- Views from the Shore. ; 2. Imagining the Other: First Encounters in North America. ; 3. The Exploration of Norumbega: Native Perspectives. ; 4. Native Reactions to the Invasion of America -- Encounters Light and Dark. ; 5. The First Consumer Revolution. ; 6. Agents of Change: Jesuits in the Post-Columbian World. ; 7. Humor in Ethnohistory -- 1492 and Beyond. ; 8. Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American History Textbooks. ; 9. The Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America. ; 10. Moral Reflections on the Columbian Legacy. ; 11. Beyond 1992.

Sommario/riassunto

In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history.   Coinciding with the 500thanniversary of Columbus's ""discovery"" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history.  Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective



of the Indians, whose land it was.  The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful.Other essays