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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823665703321

Autore

Axtell James

Titolo

After Columbus : essays in the ethnohistory of colonial North America / / James Axtell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

1-280-53991-7

0-19-802206-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

305.897

973.0497

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Government relations - To 1789

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

Indians of North America - Missions

Ethnohistory - North America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic notes: p. 255-289 and index.

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.