New worlds for all : Indians, Europeans, and the remaking of early America
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New worlds for all : Indians, Europeans, and the remaking of early America
(The American moment)
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Previously ed. published 1997
Timeline: p. [xvii]-xxi
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-222) and index
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Description
Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New Worlds for All, Colin G. Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America. The journey toward this hybrid society kept Europeans' and Indians' lives tightly entwined: living, working, worshiping, traveling, and trading together-as well as fearing, avoiding, despising, and killing one another. In some areas, settlers lived in Indian towns, eating Indian food. In the Mohawk Valley of New York, Europeans tattooed their faces; Indians drank tea. A unique American identity emerged. The second edition of New Worlds for All incorporates fifteen years of additional scholarship on Indian-European relations, such as the role of gender, Indian slavery, relationships with African Americans, and new understandings of frontier society.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Timeline
Introduction: The Kaleidoscope of Early America
1. Imagining and Creating a New World
2. Healing and Disease
3. The Stuff of Life
4. A World of Dreams and Bibles
5. New World Warfare and a New World of War
6. New World Diplomacy and New World Foreign Policies
7. New Nomads and True Nomads
8. Crossing and Merging Frontiers
9. New Peoples and New Societies
Conclusion: New Americans and First Americans
Bibliographical Essay
Index
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