William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians

Waselkov, Gregory A. (Annotating Editor) ;Braund, Kathryn E. Holland (Annotating Editor)

ISBN 10: 0803247729 / ISBN 13: 9780803247727

Edité par University of Nebraska Press, Lincolon. NE U.S.A., 1995

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William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians edited and annotated by Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund (1995 Hardcover in Dust Jacket) William Bartram (1739-1823) traveled throughout the American Southeast from 1773-1776. He occupies a unique place as an American Enlightenment explorer, naturalist, writer, and artist whose work was widely admired in his time and thereafter. Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and other leading romantics found inspiration in his pages. Bartram's most famous work, Travels, has remained in print since the first publication of the book in 1791. However, his writings on Indians have received less attention than they deserve. This volume contains all of Bartram's known writings on Native Americans: a new version of "Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians," originally edited by E. G. Squier and first published in 1853; a previously unpublished essay, "Some Hints and Observations Concerning the Civilization of the Indians, or Aborigines of America"; and extensive excerpts from Travels. These documents are among the most valuable accounts we have of the Creeks and Seminoles in the last half of the eighteenth century. Several illustrations by Bartram are also included. The editors provide information on the history of these documents and supply extensive annotations. The book opens with a biographical essay on Bartram and concludes with a thorough evaluation of his contributions to southeastern Indian ethnohistory, anthropology, and archeology. The editors have identified and corrected a number of errors found in the extant literature concerning Bartram and his writings. A map of William Bartram' s 1773-1776 exploration is given in the end-pages. Historic illustrations, bibliography with index. xviii + 342pp. This title included in publisher's Indians of the Southeast Series. Hardcover has red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine in an Almost New, or Near Fine/New Dust Jacket. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked. Page-edge stains prove this is not a new book. Always privately owned with no ownership markings. Copyright 1995. No info found regarding edition nor print-run this copy is from. Manufactured in U.S.A. You could consider this copy as from an expanded edition of Bartram's Travels (1791). ISBN: 0-8032-4772-8. LCCN: 94-29756. No MSR found. Doubt this is from a Book of the Month edition, more likely a Sales or Promotional edition. Thanks for looking!

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• Titre: William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians
• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press, Lincolon. NE U.S.A.
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0803247729
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780803247727
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Bartram, William
• Édition: Not Specified
• Impression: Printing Unknown
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Poids: 1,5 livre
• Signé: No Ownership Markings

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William Bartram traveled throughout the American Southeast from 1773 to 1776. He occupies a unique place as an American Enlightenment explorer, naturalist, writer, and artist whose work was widely admired in his time and thereafter. Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and other leading romantics found inspiration in his pages. Bartram's most famous work, "Travels" has remained in print since the first publication of the book in 1791. However, his writings on Indians have received less attention than they deserve. This volume contains all of Bartram's known writings on Native Americans: a new version of "Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians", originally edited by E. G. Squier and first published in 1853; a previously unpublished essay, "Some Hints and Observations Concerning the Civilization of the Indians, or Aborigines of America"; and extensive excerpts from "Travels". These documents are among the most valuable accounts we have of the Creeks and Seminoles in the last half of the eighteenth century. Several illustrations by Bartram are also included in this title. The editors provide information on the history of these documents and supply extensive annotations. The book opens with a biographical essay on Bartram and concludes with a thorough evaluation of his contributions to southeastern Indian ethnohistory, anthropology, and archaeology. The editors have identified and corrected a number of errors found in the extant literature concerning Bartram and his writings. Gregory A. Waselkov, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama, is coeditor with Peter H. Wood and M. Thomas Hatley of "Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast" (Nebraska 1989). Kathryn E. Holland Braund is an independent scholar and author of "Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1865-1815" (Nebraska 1993).