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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axtell, James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations--To 1789.

Indians of North America.

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

Indians of North America--Missions.

Ethnohistory--North America.

Ethnohistory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-53991-7

0-19-802206-9

OCLC:

437173050