Interpreting a Continent
Voices from Colonial America
1st Edition
Published on 16. March 2009
312 pages
978-0-7425-6464-0 (ISBN)
Description
This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico, Texas, the Great Plains, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England. Throughout, the collection provides not only the perspectives of Europeans but also of Native Americans and Africans. By looking beyond traditional sources, students see the power and diversity of Native Americans and learn that European domination of the continent was not inevitable. They see different forms of slavery and ways that slaves dealt with their captivity. By considering multiple perspectives, students learn that colonial history was largely the attempts of various peoples to understand strangers and adapt them to their own will.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-6464-0 (9780742564640)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction
- Section I. EXPLORATION
- SECTION II. INTERPRETING AND INSTRUCTING NEW PEOPLES
- SECTION III. FOUNDING AND GOVERNING
- SECTION IV. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE
- SECTION V. SLAVERY
- SECTION VI. WOMEN AND COLONIALISM
- SECTION VII. VIOLENT CONFLICT
- Further Reading
- Index
- About the Editors
