Seventeenth century North America Carl O. Sauer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

North America.

America--Discovery and exploration--French.

America.

America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--History.

Civilization, Modern--17th century.

Civilization, Modern.

America--Discovery and exploration.

Physical Description:

295 pages : 23 illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : Turtle Island, 1980.

Summary:

This book is a "review of the impact of European colonialization on the cultural and natural landscapes of native North America. In this text ... the author has focused on rare & neglected first-hand French and Spanish source materials to provide us with ecologically and ethnographically rich, stunningly detailed and articulate portraits of the American Landscape, and the culturally sophisticated Native land-management systems which were already in place at the dawn of Euro-American history. Far from a vast and open wilderness's America was, at its dawn, already a human environment, as Sauer so clearly demonstrates, and our history as a people would swing on the ability of our early 'Founding fathers, ' often no more than glorified European real estate agents, to perceive the intricacies of these eco-systems as they lay before them like an open book"--Back cover.

Contents:

Legacy of the Sixteenth century

Florida, Northeastern Borderland of New Spain

California, Entry-way from the Orient to New Spain

New Mexico reentered

The first decade of Spanish rule in New Mexico (1598-1608)

Pubelo decline and revolt

Seas and shores about and beyond Newfoundland

France seeks a location for a colony

Conflicting interests in Acadia: decline of Indian population

Canada in the time of Champlain

Return of the French: destruction of Indian Nations by feud and disease (1632-1663)

The Great Lakes explored

The Crown Colony/Jesuit Missions on the Great Lakes (1663-1672)

The Mississippi Valley explored by Joliet and Marquettee

La Salle's Louisiana Project

To Louisiana by Way of the Gulf of Mexico

French Settlement on the Texas Coast

From the Brazos to the Arkansas River

Louisiana Administered by Tonty

Notices of Louisiana at the end of the century

Apocryphal accounts of Louisiana

Review of land and biota

Native peoples and cultures

The European impress on native ways

Decline in Indian population

The end of the century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sauer, Carl Ortwin, 1889-1975. Seventeenth century North America.

ISBN:

0913666238

9780913666234

091366622X

9780913666227

OCLC:

7061103

Online:

French equivalent / Équivalent français