Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers - Couverture rigide

Lightfoot, Kent

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520208242 ISBN 13 : 9780520208247

Editeur : University of California Press, 2004

Synopsis

California's earliest European colonists - Russian merchants and Franciscan missionaries - both depended heavily on Native American labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of history - including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations - to present a vivid new look at how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. In addition to providing a new window on California's colonial past, Kent Lightfoot's innovative work, incorporating the holistic methods of historical anthropology, explores the surprising ramifications of these long-ago encounters for the political status of native people in the state today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kent G. Lightfoot is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Prehistoric Political Dynamics: A Case Study from the American Southwest (1984), among other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520208242
• ISBN 13: 9780520208247
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 355
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible