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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axtell, James, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

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 (320 p.) ill

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This volume comprises a new collection of essays - four previously unpublished - by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed 'The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within', and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in Colonial North America. Arguing that moral judgements have a legitimate place in the writing of history, Axtell scrutinizes the actions of various European invaders - missionaries, traders, soldiers, and ordinary settlers - in the 16th century. Focusing on the interactions of Spanish, French, and English colonists with American Indians over the eastern half of the United States, he examines what the history of colonial America might have looked like had the New World truly been a "virgin land," devoid of Indians.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-771107-3

1-4294-0104-4

OCLC:

1410955049