The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present.

Bruce G. Trigger (Edited by), Wilcomb E. Washburn (Edited by)

9780521573924, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 13 October 1996

586 pages, 42 b/w illus. 28 maps
23.5 x 15.9 x 4.3 cm, 0.933 kg

"The Cambridge History of the Native People of the Americas is an impressive and formidable collection of three two- volume boxed sets that summarizes scholarship on Indian peoples as it existed by the end of the twentieth century...the Cambridge History is a land mark achievement. The broad sweep of the volumes reveals the tremendous diversity of Native American societies, cultures, languages, and historic experiences...It will enjoy a long shelf-life as a handbook even as new research, new publications, and new discoveries counter and qualify some of its contents." Tearsheet From William & Mary Quarterly

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.

1. Native view of history Peter Nabokov
2. Native peoples in Euro-American historiography Wilcomb E. Washburn and Bruce G. Trigger
3. The first Americans and the differentiation of hunter-gatherer cultures Dean R. Snow
4. Indigenous farmers Linda S. Cordell and Bruce D. Smith
5. Agricultural chiefdoms of the Eastern woodlands Bruce D. Smith
6. Entertaining strangers: North America in the sixteenth century Bruce G. Trigger and William R. Swagerty
7. Native people and European settlers in Eastern North America, 1600–1783 Neal Salisbury
8. The expansion of European colonization to the Mississippi valley, 1780–1880 Michael D. Green.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]