The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution

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THE BIRTH OF AMERICA From Before Columbus to the Revolution WILLIAM R. POLK ...

For William Polk Carey—financier, statesman, humanitarian, friend ...

Contents Introduction: Revising the American Past PART I: EUROPE AND AFRICA COME TO AMERICA The Native Americans 3 The Fearsome ...

Production and Commerce 230 Representation and Taxation 247 CONCLUSION: STUMBLING TOWARD WAR Foreign Friends and Fellow Suffe ...

introduction Revising the American Past T here was a time when people thought “history” was “the past,” uniform, unchanging, fin ...

from other tribal peoples, and on occasion archaeology. For the blacks who began to arrive in the New World in the sixteenth cen ...

not genocide. Of course, they did not reach Cathay or Chipango, so it was the Guanche model they applied to Hispaniola, Mexico, ...

ways of life had been affected by difficult-to-estimate degrees of contact. Thus even the best accounts are seriously flawed, an ...

mately 250,000. With effects similar to disease, Spaniards imposed upon the New World the thriving new business of sugar plantat ...

main population centers of the British colonists and because their European rivalry spilled over into the New World where it als ...

the south of them, they were acutely aware of—indeed, often respectful of— their Native American neighbors, on whom they depende ...

The first ventures into social history—what people ate, how they were housed, the clothing they wore, how they kept warm, how th ...

ing of these overarching themes in his interpretation of the role of the fron- tier in American history. He turned our attention ...

rified by the destruction of their societies, Indians in Spanish-controlled Pueblo country and in the Ohio Valley rose against a ...

Diligent,to give a detailed but relatively benign picture of the passage. Another account by a former slave, Olaudah Equiano (Gu ...

colonies. Religion as expressed in cultural orientation was at the forefront of Spanish, French, English, and—as we now know—Nat ...

the last days before the Revolution. Among the newer tools available to historians is archaeology. Archaeology not only enables ...

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