North American Encounters
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Author | : Angela L. Miller |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : 9780130300041 |
"Contextual in approch, this text draws on socio-economic and political studies as well as histories of religion, science, literature, and popular culture, and explores the diverse, conflicted history of American art and architecture. Thematically interrelating the visual arts to other material artifacts and cultural practices, the text examines how artists and architects produced artwork that visually expressed various social and political values."--Publisher's website.
Author | : Angela L. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Art and society |
ISBN | : 9781941823132 |
"American Encounters provides a narrative of the history of American art that focuses on historical encounters among diverse cultures, upon broad structural transformations such as the rise of the middle classes and the emergence of consumer and mass culture, and on the fluid conversations between "high" art and vernacular expressions. The text emphasizes the intersections among cultures and populations, as well as the exchanges, borrowings, and appropriations that have enriched and vitalized our collective cultural heritage"--Washington University Open Scholarship website, viewed February 21, 2018.
Author | : Peter C. Mancall |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Indian Removal, 1813-1903 |
ISBN | : 9780415923750 |
A collection of articles that describe the relationships and encounters between Native Americans and Europeans throughout American history.
Author | : Harry Liebersohn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2001-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521003605 |
This 1999 book relates how European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.
Author | : Richard W. Pointer |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0253116899 |
Historians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross-cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contacts with native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up these intriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious encounter between Indians and Euro-Americans in early America. Exploring a series of episodes across the three centuries of the colonial era and stretching from New Spain to New France and the English settlements, he finds that the flow of cultural influence was more often reciprocal than unidirectional.
Author | : James Axtell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 1992-09-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190281979 |
In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history. Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history. Three essays view the invasion of North America from the perspective of the Indians, whose land it was. The very first meetings, he finds, were nearly always peaceful. Other essays describe native encounters with colonial traders--creating "the first consumer revolution"--and Jesuit missionaries in Canada and Mexico. Despite the tragedy of many of the encounters, Axtell also finds that there was much humor in Indian-European negotiations over peace, sex, and war. In the final section he conducts searching analyses of how college textbooks treat the initial century of American history, how America's human face changed from all brown in 1492 to predominantly white and black by 1792, and how we handled moral questions during the Quincentenary. He concludes with an extensive review of the Quincentenary scholarship--books, films, TV, and museum exhibits--and suggestions for how we can assimilate what we have learned.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Fenn |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374711070 |
This Pulitzer Prize–winning work pieces together the lost history of the Mandan Native Americans and their thriving society on the Upper Missouri River. The Mandan people’s bustling towns in present-day North Dakota were at the center of the North American universe for centuries. Yet their history has been nearly forgotten, maintained in fragmentary documents and the journals of white visitors such as Lewis and Clark. In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn pieces together those fragments along with important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. The result is a bold new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived—and how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured.
Author | : Dieter Meindl |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783825861100 |
These essays (in English except for four items in German and French) provide an intercultural perspective. They deal with such diverse aspects of North American (including Quebecois) literature. The continental context also pervades treatments of novels (featuring Indian wars, sentimentalism, the West, and modern pícaros), story cycles (e.g., Atwood's), and the long poem (Kroetsch).
Author | : Jayme A. Sokolow |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780765609830 |
By putting the story of the native Americans and their encounters with Europeans at its centre, this work explores a new history in which the indigenous peoples become vibrant and vitally important components of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese empires.
Author | : Nancy Shoemaker |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469622580 |
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was "Indian" and how "Indians" behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians. Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.