The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 1: North America (2 Volume Set) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521344409 ISBN 13: 9780521344401

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996

Synopsis

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.

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Reviews

In this wide-ranging history of the Native peoples of North America from prehistory to the present, edited by a Canadian archaeologist and a former historian with the Smithsonian, a variety of authors present a huge amount of information in a very concise format. Chapters are both thematic ("Native peoples in Euro-American historiography") and regional ("the Arctic from Norse contact to modern times"). Where experts have differing opinions, such as the earliest dates for Native peoples in the Americas or the population of North America in 1492, authors explain their positions and refer readers to other points of view through discussion and footnotes. As the broad nature of the essays precludes presenting specific tribal information, this work complements other recent reference works, such as the Department of Commerce's American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas (1996). Despite indifferent indexes and occasional information gaps, these volumes should have a prominent place in most library reference collections.?Mary B. Davis, Huntington Free Lib., Bronx
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521344409
• ISBN 13: 9780521344401
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1072
• Editor: Trigger Bruce G., Washburn Wilcomb E.