The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927

Jace Weaver

ISBN 10: 1469633388 / ISBN 13: 9781469633381

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1469633388
• ISBN 13: 9781469633381
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 511 grams

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Synopsis

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region’s historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver’s sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature, synthesizes scholarship to place indigenous people of the Americas at the center of our understanding of the Atlantic world. Weaver illuminates their willing and unwilling travels through the region, revealing how they changed the course of world history.

Indigenous Americans, Weaver shows, crossed the Atlantic as royal dignitaries, diplomats, slaves, laborers, soldiers, performers, and tourists. And they carried resources and knowledge that shaped world civilization — from chocolate, tobacco, and potatoes to terrace farming and suspension bridges. Weaver makes clear that indigenous travelers were cosmopolitan agents of international change whose engagement with other societies gave them the tools to advocate for their own sovereignty even as it was challenged by colonialism.

About the Author

Jace Weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia and author of Notes from a Miner’s Canary: Essays on the State of Native America, among other books.