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American Indian History: A Documentary Reader
Camilla Townsend
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Description for American Indian History: A Documentary Reader
Paperback. American Indian History , which covers the fifteenth century through the present day, illuminates the richness of American Indian historical traditions. Townsend devotes nearly a third of the volume to the ancient world through the eighteenth century and then moves on to extensive coverage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Townsend, Camilla. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history.
This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history.
- Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past
- Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts
- Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research
- Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Series
Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405159081
SKU
V9781405159081
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Camilla Townsend
Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (2000), Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004) and Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006).
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