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

Weaver, Jace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469614383 ISBN 13: 9781469614380

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

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 this title

Book Description:

" The Red Atlantic is an original, learned, and comparative historical narrative of transatlantic cultures and nations. Jace Weaver considers the significance of the cultural exchange, political ideas, literature, technology, and material trade with Native American Indians, or the historical and cultural transatlantic significance of the Red Atlantic. He has written an extraordinary and comprehensive comparative history of Native American Indians in the Red Atlantic, and his discussions of the subject will surely inspire and influence future students, research, and writing on the subject."--Gerald Vizenor, University of California, Berkeley

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1469614383
• ISBN 13: 9781469614380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360