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UNINA9910823665703321 |
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Autore |
Axtell James |
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Titolo |
After Columbus : essays in the ethnohistory of colonial North America / / James Axtell |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-53991-7 |
0-19-802206-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographic notes: p. 255-289 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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