People have always made maps, whether drawn on paper, etched into bark, or traced in the sand.
An edition of Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents
(1999)
Encounters in the New World
a history in documents
by Jill Lepore
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A collection of documents illustrating encounters between Native American peoples and a variety of European newcomers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Includes maps, journals, advertisements, and letters.
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Encounters in the New World: a history in documents
2002, Oxford University Press
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in English
1423774892 9781423774891
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Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
April 2002, Tandem Library
in English
0613573560 9780613573566
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Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
March 27, 2002, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0195154916 9780195154917
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Encounters in the New World: a history in documents
2000, Oxford University Press
in English
0195105133 9780195105131
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Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents (Pages from History)
December 30, 1999, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
0195105133 9780195105131
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Book Details
Table of Contents
What is a document?
How to read a document
Introduction
On the turtle's back ; Why Europe? ; Dealing with the documents
Mapping the world
Ptolemy's revolution ; Christian world ; Expanding world ; America emerges ; Vanishing maps ; Lines and circles
First encounters
Prophecies, plans, and fantasies ; First impressions ; Gods? Savages? ; Dividing the sexes ; Catalog of nature ; Indians abroad
Conquest and resistance
Montezuma, Quetzalcoatl, and Cortes ; Eight-year journey ; Invading the interior ; Great debate ; Missions and presidios
Furs, rivers, and black robes
Peoples of the Longhouse ; New France ; Society of Jesus ; New worlds, new women ; Covenants of war and peace
English arrive
Go west ; Roanoke, the lost colony ; Powhatan and his people ; Founding Jamestown ; Pocahontas and her legacy
Africans in America
Kidnapped ; Tips for slave traders ; Ships of death ; For sale ; Africans' new worlds ; Two views ; Runaways and rebels
Planting New England
Metacom's Rebellion ; Manitou and the city on a hill ; Marking the landscape ; Praying Indians.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.
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