First Americans: A History of Native Peoples, Combined Volume
A History of Native Peoples, PowerPoints
2nd Edition
Published on 11. December 2018
Book
Hardback
670 pages
978-1-138-73588-0 (ISBN)
Description
First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining the agency and vitality of Native peoples and cultures in the context of regional, continental, and global developments. This updated edition of First Americans continues to trace Native experiences through the Obama administration years and up to the present day. The book includes a variety of pedagogical tools including short biographical profiles, key review questions, a rich series of maps and illustrations, chapter chronologies, and recommendations for further reading. Lucid and readable yet rigorous in its coverage, First Americans remains the indispensable student introduction to Native American history.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Weight
1592 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-73588-0 (9781138735880)
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Kenneth W. Townsend
First Americans: A History of Native Peoples, Combined Volume
A History of Native Peoples, PowerPoints
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12/2018
2nd Edition
Routledge
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Person
Kenneth W. Townsend earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, two years after joining the faculty of the Department of History at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. In addition to his teaching and university service responsibilities, Townsend served as Chair of the Department of History and established the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Coastal Carolina University, acting as its director for two years. He is the author of World War II and the American Indian (2000), South Carolina (2008), and varied articles.
Content
Chapter 1 Native North America before European Contact
Chapter 2 Native Peoples and European Newcomers, 982-1585
Chapter 3 Spanish Borderlands, 1527-1758
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands, 1607-1689
Chapter 5 Empire, 1700-1763
Chapter 6 The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814
Chapter 7 Removal, 1801-1846
Chapter 8 Western Indians and the United States, 1800-1850
Chapter 9 The Civil War Years, 1861-1865
Chapter 10 Conflicting Postwar Directions, 1865-1877
Chapter 11 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, 1877-1910
Chapter 12 Progressivism and World War I: Charting Their Own Course in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1920
Chapter 13 Post-War Directions for Native Americans, 1918-1929
Chapter 14 The Great Depression, 1929-1940
Chapter 15 American Indians Join the War Effort, 1940-1945
Chapter 16 Redefining the Status of Native Americans in Post-World War II America, 1943-1962
Chapter 17 Indian Activism in the Age of Liberalism, 1961-1980
Chapter 18 Self-Determination to Decolonization: Native Americans into the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 2 Native Peoples and European Newcomers, 982-1585
Chapter 3 Spanish Borderlands, 1527-1758
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands, 1607-1689
Chapter 5 Empire, 1700-1763
Chapter 6 The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814
Chapter 7 Removal, 1801-1846
Chapter 8 Western Indians and the United States, 1800-1850
Chapter 9 The Civil War Years, 1861-1865
Chapter 10 Conflicting Postwar Directions, 1865-1877
Chapter 11 The Struggle for Cultural Identity, 1877-1910
Chapter 12 Progressivism and World War I: Charting Their Own Course in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1920
Chapter 13 Post-War Directions for Native Americans, 1918-1929
Chapter 14 The Great Depression, 1929-1940
Chapter 15 American Indians Join the War Effort, 1940-1945
Chapter 16 Redefining the Status of Native Americans in Post-World War II America, 1943-1962
Chapter 17 Indian Activism in the Age of Liberalism, 1961-1980
Chapter 18 Self-Determination to Decolonization: Native Americans into the Twenty-First Century