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• ISBN: 0195137701 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780195137705 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 019513771X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780195137712 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xi, 418 pages ; illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, c2001.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-409) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Imagining the other: first encounters -- Babel of tongues: communicating with the Indians -- At the water's edge: trading in the sixteenth century -- The first consumer revolution: the seventeenth century -- Making do: trade in the eighteenth-century Southeast -- The invasion within: the contest of cultures -- Dr. Wheelock's little red school -- The white Indians -- The Spanish incursion -- The rise and fall of the Powhatan empire -- The moral dilemmas of scalping -- The Columbian mosaic -- Native reactions to the invasion of America -- The Indian impact on English colonial culture.

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Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans.
Indians of North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
North America > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.