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First encounters : native voices on the coming of the Europeans / Howard B. Leavitt, editor.

Leavitt, Howard B. (Editor).

Summary:

"First Encounters: Native voices on the coming of the Europeans" reaches back to add important, often overlooked viewpoints to our understanding of history, gathering together accounts describing the initial experiences of indigenous peoples around the world with European explorers, missionaries, traders, soldiers and settlers ... First encounters brings together 42 authentic, first-person accounts, organized geographically in sections on Africa, North America, South America, Greater Australia, and Asia. Selections, each with editors notes, provide vivid, detailed accounts of the culture clashes that defined an era."--Back cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780313351310
  • ISBN: 0313351317
  • Physical Description: xxi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, ©2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
First encounters in Africa. I was a savage / Prince Modupe (Guinea) ; Back to my village / Mongo Beti (Cameroon) ; Beatings at the Mission School / Cameron Duodu (Ghana) ; Confrontations / Chief Mojimba and H.M. Stanley (Congo) ; Rubber forest atrocities, part I / Cong refugees (Congo) ; Rubber forest atrocities, part II / Five Congolese girls (Congo) ; I survived the middle passage / Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria) ; The white man arrives / Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) ; The loss of identity / Chief Matungi (Congo) ; The coming of the pink cheeks / Chief Kabongo (Kenya) ; The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya) ; Coming home / William Conton (Gambia) ; Clash between old and new / Chief Awolowo (Nigeria) ; The school inspector / Kofi Awoonor (Ghana) ; The return of the soldier / Francis Obika (Nigeria) ; Coming of the airplane / Edward Atiyah (Sudan) -- First encounters in North America. Arrival of the Dutch on Manhattan / Indian chiefs (New York) ; Ridiculing the French / Micmac Indian spokesman (Canada) ; The prophecy / Basil H. Johnston (Canada) ; Janitin is named Jesus / Janitin (California) ; Address in Washington, D.C. / Chief Joseph (Oregon) ; The invisible killer / George Bent (U.S. Midwest) ; Their wondrous works and ways / Charles Eastman (Minnesota) ; The arrival of Bibles in northwest Alaska / Blanche J. Criss (Alaska) ; Literary disempowerment / Jeannette Armstrong (Canada) ; The conquistadors arrive / Aztec witnesses (Mexico) -- First encounters in South America. Execution of an Incan emperor / Garcilaso de la Vega (Peru) ; Not Gods but conquerers / Titu Cusi Yupanki (Peru) ; The beheading of Emperor Amaru / unnamed Inca (Peru) ; The conquest of the Incas : postscript / Waman Puma (Peru) -- First encounters in greater Australia. Growing up in New Guinea / Albert Kiki (Papua New Guinea) ; First contacts / Papuan highlanders (Papua New Guinea) -- First encounters in Asia. Scornful letter to King George III / Chinese Emperor Qian Long (China) ; Denunciation of the British / Canton citizens (China) ; Beware of western barbarians / Wei Yuan (China) ; The evil of western materialism / Abu Taleb (India) ; Hinduism is not inferior to Christianity / Rammohun Roy (India) ; Japanese are superior, Dutch are inferior / Hiratu Atsutane (Japan) ; War is preferable to peace / Tokugawa Nariaki (Japan) ; Criticisms of Catholicism / Yi Ik (Korea) ; The weakness of Catholicism / An Chongbok (Korea) ; China is the center of the universe / Yi Hangro (Korea).
Subject:
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners > Sources.
Colonies > History > Sources.
Acculturation > Sources > History.
Indigenous peoples > Sources > History.
Indigenous peoples > Biography.
Europeans > Sources > History.
Colonists > Sources > History.
Conquerors > Sources > History.
Acculturation.
Colonies.
Colonists.
Conquerors.
Europeans.
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners.
Indigenous peoples.
Genre:
Biography.
History.
Sources.
Sources.
Biography.

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