Indian Peace Medals in American History - Hardcover

Prucha, Francis Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803208901 ISBN 13: 9780803208902

Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1976

Synopsis

"Dr. Prucha, a professor of history at Marquette, has published a comprehensive new work on Indian peace medals. It supplies a wealth of new information on this series and represents the first significant work on this subject to be offered to the numismatist in almost half a century. This rich historical survey provides Indian peace medal collectors with a degree of comprehension of the series which was not available before."--- Coin WorldFather Prucha's excellent book...is a must both as reading and reference for all concerned with Indian policy and courses and seminars in Western History, specialists and students alike." ---The Historian"The history of the nation's Indian policy is revealed through Indian peace medals, which are equally important to the story of American art....Prucha provides an interesting story of the peace medals and also traces the designing and producing of these historic pieces. Students of American Indian history should ben

About this title

About the Author:

Francis Paul Prucha (1921-2015), is the author of The Great Father: The United States Government and American Indians and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. A native of Wisconsin, Father Prucha is a priest of the Society of Jesus and professor emeritus of history at Marquette University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0803208901
• ISBN 13: 9780803208902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186