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Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America

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In this provocative and timely collection of essays–five published for the first time–one of the crucial 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 500th anniversary of Columbus’s “discovery” of The usa, this collection covers quite a lot of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North The usa from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it used to be. The first actual meetings, he finds, were nearly all the time peaceful. Other essays describe native encounters with colonial traders–creating “the first consumer revolution”–and Jesuit missionaries in Canada and Mexico. Regardless of the tragedy of some of the encounters, Axtell also finds that there used to be much humor in Indian-European negotiations over peace, sex, and war. In the final section he conducts searching analyses of how college textbooks treat the initial century of American history, how The usa’s human face changed from all brown in 1492 to predominantly white and black by 1792, and how we handled moral questions throughout the Quincentenary. He concludes with an extensive review of the Quincentenary scholarship–books, films, TV, and museum exhibits–and suggestions for how we will be able to assimilate what we have learned.

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