Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
Over the past generation, historians, anthropologists and other scholars have transformed our understanding of the history of North America's native peoples between first contact with Europeans in 1492 and the era of Indian Removal in the first half of the nineteenth century Once relegated to the sidelines of historical scholarship, studies of Native Americans and of their relations with Europeans are now basic components of any serious effort to understand the early American experience. This timely anthology brings together much of the best work available on early Native American history, offering comprehensive yet focused coverage on a wide array of topics from contact, exchange and diplomacy to religion, disease and warfare.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 563-567) and index.
Table of Contents
The Indians' old world: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans / Neal Salisbury -- The Indians' new world: the Catawba experience / James H. Merrell -- Ecological imperialism: the overseas migration of western Europeans as a biological phenomenon / Alfred W. Crosby -- Amerindian views of French culture in the seventeenth century / Cornelius J. Jaenen -- Iroquois women, European women / Natalie Zemon Davis -- The berdache and the Illinois Indian tribe during the last half of the seventeenth century / Raymond Hauser -- Generations of faith: the Christian Indians of Martha's Vineyard / James P. Ronda -- Of missionaries and their cattle: Ojibwa perceptions of a missionary as evil shaman / Rebecca Kugel -- A new perspective on Indian-white contact: cultural symbols and colonial trade / Christopher L. Miller and George R. Hamell -- The bewitching tyranny of custom: the social costs of Indian drinking in colonial America / Peter C. Mancall -- The frontier exchange economy of the lower Mississippi Valley in the eighteenth century / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. -- The three lives of Keowee: loss and recovery in the eighteenth-century Cherokee villages / M. Thomas Hatley -- The first whalemen of Nantucket / Daniel Vickers -- War and culture: the Iroquois experience / Daniel K. Richter -- Ruling "the republic of Indians" in seventeenth-century Florida / Amy Turner Bushnell -- The white Indians of colonial America / James Axtell -- Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon -- Thinking and believing: nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh / Gregory Evans Dowd -- The Glaize in 1792: a composite Indian community / Helen Hornbeck Tanner -- The right to a name: the Narragansett people and Rhode Island officials in the Revolutionary era / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau -- Cherokee anomie, 1794-1810: new roles for red men, red women, and black slaves / William G. McLoughlin -- The staff of leadership: Indian authority in the missions of Alta California / Steven W. Hackel -- Levantamiento!: the 1824 Chumash uprising reconsidered / James A. Sandos -- Cherokee women and the Trail of Tears / Theda Perdue -- The winning of the West: the expansion of the western Sioux in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Richard White.