New worlds for all
Indians, Europeans, and the remaking of early America
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Author
Publication
1997 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md
Language
English
Word Count
57,250 words, Guess
Page Count
229 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21579985M
- ISBN-100801854482
- OCLC Control Number34746037
- OCLC Control Numbernewworldsforalli0000call
- Library of Congress Control Number96020625
and 2 more
- LibraryThing193991
- Goodreads2682313
Classifications
- LCCE45 .C34 1997
- DDC970.02
Description
In New Worlds for All, Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America. The process, Calloway writes, lasted longer than the United States has existed as a nation. During that time, most of America was still "Indian country," and even in areas of European settlement, Indians and Europeans remained a part of each other's daily lives: living, working, worshiping, traveling, and trading together - as well as fearing, avoiding, despising, and killing one another. Ranging across the continent and over 300 years, New Worlds for All describes encounters between Spanish conquistadors and Zuni warriors, Huron shamans and French Jesuit missionaries, English merchants and Montagnais traders. Calloway's discussion of conflict and cooperation includes the use of natural resources and shared knowledge about trail networks, herbal medicines, metal tools, and weapons. He depicts the European emulation of Indian military tactics, the varied responses of Indian societies to Christianity, attempts made on all sides to learn the languages and customs of the other, and the intermingling of peoples at the fringes of competing cultures - through captivity and adoption, attempts to escape one's own society and embrace another, or intermarriage. The New World, Calloway concludes, brought new identities for all, as Indian and European cultures combined to create a uniquely American identity.
First Sentence
AT THE OUTBREAK of the American Revolution, the rebelling colonists solicited the support, or at least the neutrality, of the Indian tribes of the eastern woodlands in their war against Great Britain.
Excerpt
AT THE OUTBREAK of the American Revolution, the rebelling colonists solicited the support, or at least the neutrality, of the Indian tribes of the eastern woodlands in their war against Great Britain.
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