The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the AmericasBruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Richard E. W. Adams Cambridge University Press, 1996 M10 13 - 586 pages Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state. |
Contents
Native views of history I | 1 |
The greater Southwest and California from the beginning | 10 |
Native peoples in EuroAmerican historiography | 61 |
The Northwest from the beginning of trade with | 117 |
The first Americans and the differentiation of hunter | 125 |
reconstructed from Indian Knoll Kentucky | 157 |
The reservation period 18801960 | 183 |
Indigenous farmers | 201 |
North America in the sixteenth | 325 |
The Arctic from Norse contact to modern times | 329 |
America in the sixteenth century | 341 |
North America in the sixteenth century | 345 |
Native people and European settlers in eastern North America 16001783 | 399 |
The Native American Renaissance 1960 to 1995 | 401 |
The expansion of European colonization to the Mississippi Valley 17801880 | 461 |
1 | 513 |
river valleys and the 120day frostfree line | 236 |
The Northern Interior 1600 to modern times | 259 |
Agricultural chiefdoms of the Eastern Woodlands | 267 |
the Vacant Quarter and the rivervalley locations | 270 |
peregrine falcon as depicted in large copper plates | 286 |
Index to Part 2 | 515 |
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