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  • The European and the Indian

    Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

    de James Axtell ...
    Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship. ... Leer más

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  • Beyond 1492

    Encounters in Colonial North America

    de James Axtell ...
    In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with ... Leer más

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  • The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson

    From College to Nation

    Edición de James Axtell ...
    In The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson, James Axtell brings together essays by eight leading historians and one historically minded political scientist to examine the long, formative academic phase of Wilson’s career and its connection to his relatively brief tenure in politics. Together, the essays provide a greatly revised picture of Wilson’s whole career and a deeply nuanced understanding ... Leer más

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  • The Indians' New South

    Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast

    de James Axtell ...
    Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
    In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effectively argues that ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Princeton University

    From Woodrow Wilson to the Present

    de James Axtell ...
    In 1902, Professor Woodrow Wilson took the helm of Princeton University, then a small denominational college with few academic pretensions. But Wilson had a blueprint for remaking the too-cozy college into an intellectual powerhouse. The Making of Princeton University tells, for the first time, the story of how the University adapted and updated Wilson's vision to transform itself into the ... Leer más

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    The Rise of the Modern University

    de James Axtell ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
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    How the Indians Enriched America

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  • The Native Ground

    Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent

    Series series Early American Studies
    In The Native Ground, Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups. Along the banks of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, far from Paris, Madrid, and London, European colonialism met neither accommodation nor resistance but incorporation. Rather than being ... Leer más

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  • 1491 (Second Edition)

    New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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  • The Earth Shall Weep

    A History of Native America

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    Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture

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