The Americas that might have been : Native American social systems through time / Julian Granberry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Granberry, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians--First contact with other peoples.

Indians.

Indians--Transatlantic influences.

Indians--Colonization.

America--Discovery and exploration.

America.

America--Colonization.

Europe--Colonies--America.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today-politically, economically, culturally-if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world's other societies? It assumes that Columbus did not embark from Spain in 1492 and that no Europeans found or settled the New World afterward, leaving the peoples of the two American continents free to follow the natural course of their Native lives. The Americas That Might Have Been is a professional but layman-accessible, fact-based, nonfi

Contents:

Introduction : the whys and wherefores

Men out of Asia

America 1492

Native philosophies of life

Unitary norms : the Asian perspective

The dualistic view : the European norm

The trinary compromise : the Near Eastern norm

The empire of Tawantinsuyu

The empire of the Mexica

The Maya kingdoms

The Mississippian cities and towns

The Pueblo towns

The Taino chiefdoms

Hemispheric-internal relationships in the twenty-first century : the inner design

Commerce and discovery of the old world

International alliances and interaction in the twenty-first century : the outer scheme

Epilogue: the first Baktun.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-197) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8345-X

OCLC:

609852666