Beyond 1492 : encounters in colonial North America /
James Axtell explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays vi...
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New York :
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1992.
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Table of Contents:
- History as imagination
- Imagining the other: first encounters in North America
- The exploration of Norumbega: native perspectives
- Native reactions to the invasion of America
- The first consumer revolution
- Agents of change: Jesuits in the post-Columbian world
- Humor in ethnohistory
- Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American history textbooks
- The Columbian mosaic in colonial America
- Moral reflections on the Columbian legacy
- Beyond 1992.