American Encounters

Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850
2. New Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-415-98022-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 756 Seiten, Format (B × H): 252 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 1376 g

Newly expanded, the second edition of American Encounters provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date collection of scholarship on the Native American experience from European contact through the Removal Era. Retaining the hallmark essays from the celebrated first edition, the second edition contains thirteen new essays, emphasizing the most recent, noteworthy areas of inquiry, including gender relations, slavery and captivity, and the effects of Christianity on the course of native history. With each essay prefaced by helpful headnotes that highlight key concepts and draw connections among the essays, plus an expansive 'Further Readings' section, the second edition of American Encounters is an indispensable volume for both professors and students of early American history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mancall, Peter C.

Merrell, James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Indians’ Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans 2. Indians’ New World: The Catawba Experience Part One: Contact Arenas Demography and Disease 3. Virgin Soils Revisited Ideology and Spirituality 4. Iroquois Women, European Women 5. Women, Kin, and Catholicism: New Perspectives on the Fur Trade 6. The Berdache and the Illinois Indian 7. Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha’s Vineyard 8. Dreaming of the Savior’s Blood: Moravians and the Indian Great Awakening in Pennsylvania 9. Of Missionaries and their Cattle: Ojibwa Perceptions of a Missionary as Evil Shaman Economy and Exchange 10. Encounters with Spirits: Ojibwa and Dakota Theories Regarding the French and their Merchandise 11. King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England 12. Bewitching Tyranny of Custom: Social Costs of Indian Drinking in Colonial America 13. Frontier Exchange Economy Lower Mississippi 14. First Whalemen Nantucket 15. 'White & Clean' and Contested: Creek Towns and Trading Paths in the Aftermath of the Seven Years’ War 16. The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures Diplomacy and Warfare 17. A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the 'Land of the Tejas' 18. War and Culture: The Iroquois Experience 19. 'A Little Flesh We Offer You': The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France 20. The White Indians of Colonial America 21. 'This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex': Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands 22. Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier Part Two: From Revolution to Removal, and Beyond 23. Thinking and Believing: Nativism and Unity in the Ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh 24. The Right to a Name 25. Taking Account of Property: Stratification among the Creek Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century 26. The Staff of Leadership 27. 'More Motley than Mackinaw': From Ethnic Mixing to Ethnic Cleansing on the Frontier of the Lower Missouri, 1783–1833 28. Winning of the West

Über Autor(innen)

Peter C. Mancall is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is the author of several books, including Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America and Hakluyt’s Promise: An Elizabethan’s Obsession for an English America.

James H. Merrell, the Lucy Maynard Salmon Professor of History at Vassar College, is the author of the Bancroft Prize-winning books The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact through the Era of Removal and Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier.