The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 - Couverture rigide

Weaver, Jace

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1469614383 ISBN 13 : 9781469614380

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Synopsis

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature, synthesises scholarship to place indigenous people of the Americas at the centre of our understanding of the Atlantic world. Weaver illuminates their willing and unwilling travels through the region, revealing how they changed the course of world history.

Indigenous Americans, Weaver shows, crossed the Atlantic as royal dignitaries, diplomats, slaves, labourers, soldiers, performers, and tourists. And they carried resources and knowledge that shaped world civilisation--from chocolate, tobacco, and potatoes to terrace farming and suspension bridges. Weaver makes clear that indigenous travellers were cosmopolitan agents of international change whose engagement with other societies gave them the tools to advocate for their own sovereignty even as it was challenged by colonialism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jace Weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia, USA and author of Notes from a Miner's Canary: Essays on the State of Native America, among other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1469614383
• ISBN 13: 9781469614380
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
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