Indian givers : how the Indians of the Americas transformed the world / Jack Weatherford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weatherford, Jack, 1946-

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization--Indigenous influences.

Civilization.

Civilization, Modern--History.

Civilization, Modern.

Indians of North America--Colonization.

Indians of North America.

Indians of South America--Colonization.

Indians of South America.

Indians, North American.

Civilization--Indian influences.

Medical Subjects:

Indians, North American.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

x, [2], 272, [4] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Ballantine Books edition

Distribution:

New York : Published by Ballantine Books,

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Fawcett Columbine, 1990.

Contents:

1. Silver and money capitalism

2. Piracy, slavery, and the birth of corporations

3. The American Indian path to industrialization

4. The food revolution

5. Indian agricultural technology

6. The culinary revolution

7. Liberty, anarchism, and the Noble Savage

8. The founding Indian fathers

9. Red sticks and revolution

10. The Indian healer

11. The drug connection

12. Architecture and urban planning

13. The pathfinders

14. When will America be discovered?

Notes:

A Fawcett Columbine Book.

Cover design by Bill Geller.

Originally published: Crown Publishers, New York, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.

Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0449904962

9780449904961

OCLC:

154260240