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The Roots of Dependency: Subsistance, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos
Richard White
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Description for The Roots of Dependency: Subsistance, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos
Paperback. Offers a study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies that represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Num Pages: 433 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: 1KB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 698.
"Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields--mainly anthropology, history, and ecology--are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems...A very sophisticated study, a 'best read' in Indian history."--American Historical Review "The book is original, enlightening, and rewarding. It points the way to a holistic manner in which tribal histories and studies of Indian-white relations should be written in the future. It can be recommended to anyone interested in Indian affairs, particularly ... Read more
"Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields--mainly anthropology, history, and ecology--are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems...A very sophisticated study, a 'best read' in Indian history."--American Historical Review "The book is original, enlightening, and rewarding. It points the way to a holistic manner in which tribal histories and studies of Indian-white relations should be written in the future. It can be recommended to anyone interested in Indian affairs, particularly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Number of pages
433
Condition
New
Number of Pages
433
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803297241
SKU
V9780803297241
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About Richard White
Richard White is a professor of history at the University of Washington. He is the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, the James A. Rawley Prize presented by the Organization of American Historians and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. His books include The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in ... Read more
Reviews for The Roots of Dependency: Subsistance, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos
"Richard White's study of the collapse into 'dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields-mainly anthropology, history, and ecology-are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems... A very sophisticated study, a 'best read' in Indian history."-American Historical Review ... Read more