Natives and newcomers : the cultural origins of North America /
Natives and Newcomers is a collection of fifteen of James Axtell's best and most influential essays, available for the first time in one volume. In accessible and often witty prose, Axtell describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics,...
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Table of Contents:
- Imagining the other: first encounters
- Babel of tongues: communicating with the Indians
- At the water's edge: trading in the sixteenth century
- The first consumer revolution: the seventeenth century
- Making do: trade in the eighteenth-century Southeast
- The invasion within: the contest of cultures
- Dr. Wheelock's little red school
- The white Indians
- The Spanish incursion
- The rise and fall of the Powhatan empire
- The moral dilemmas of scalping
- The Columbian mosaic
- Native reactions to the invasion of America
- The Indian impact on English colonial culture.