Product Description

Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1874344 in Books
• Published on: 1982-02-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.02 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
"A fine book."--Richard Ellis, Fort Lewis College

"This important volume, coving the period 1600-1763, is the first in a trilogy which promises to provide a new and more sophisticated understanding of colonial ethno-history and Indian missions than we have ever had....Lively, informative, and convincing, this book explains how the Indians managed to sustain their ethnicity even when they adopted Christianity. Axtell is clearly one of our best ethnohistorians; this is a superb book."--Journal of American Academy of Religion

"An intelligent, often innovative, and elegantly written work by a serious scholar who is quite intimate with the primary historical sources as well as the anthropological literature on the early Eastern Woodland peoples."--American Antiquity

"Penetrating and lucid."--Francis Jennings, The Newberry Library Center for the History of the American Indian

From the Publisher
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About the Author
James Axtell is at College of William and Mary.