| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 376 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-364) and index. |
| Contents |
1. History as Imagination -- Views from the Shore. 2. Imagining the Other: First Encounters in North America. 3. Exploration of Norumbega: Native Perspectives. 4. Native Reactions to the Invasion of America -- Encounters Light and Dark. 5. First Consumer Revolution. 6. Agents of Change: Jesuits in the Post-Columbian World. 7. Humor in Ethnohistory -- 1492 and Beyond. 8. Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American History Textbooks. 9. Columbian Mosaic in Colonial America. 10. Moral Reflections on the Columbian Legacy. 11. Beyond 1992. |
| Summary |
In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500thanniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it was. The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful. Other essays d. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Columbus, Christopher -- Influence.
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Columbus, Christopher. |
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Colón, Cristóbal, 1451-1506. |
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North America -- Discovery and exploration.
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North America. |
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Discoveries in geography. |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1775 |
| Indexed Term |
Civilisation |
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North America |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Axtell, James. Beyond 1492. New York : Oxford University Press, 1992 (DLC) 91045411 |
| ISBN |
0195359828 |
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9780195359824 |
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9780195359824 (electronic book) |
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9780195080339 |
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0195080335 |
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9780195068382 |
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0195068386 |
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1280526645 |
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9781280526640 |
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0195080335 |
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0195068386 |
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