Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents
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AlbakiReads Editorial Early American history through the people who recorded it
Early American history through the people who recorded it
Covering 1492 to 1789, this document-based history assembles firsthand accounts alongside Jill Lepore’s commentary to trace encounters among Indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans in the Americas. Memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, correspondence, official reports, and other records place competing perspectives in view, including Aztec accounts, a Jesuit’s chronicle of Iroquois captivity, material from Cortés’s expedition, and an escaped slave’s reminiscences. A 16-page color map section extends the inquiry to cartography, showing how European and North American mapmakers represented their worlds. The volume foregrounds the cultural conflicts and unequal power shaping the early history of the Americas.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Teen and young adult students of early American history
- Readers interested in primary-source historical documents
- Those exploring colonial encounters, enslavement, and Indigenous-European relations
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Colonialism and cultural encounterPrimary sources and historical memoryIndigenous, European, and African perspectivesEnslavement and captivityCartography and worldviews
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Book Overview From Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789, Jill Lepore, winner o...
From Columbus's voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789, Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history, brings to life in exciting, first-person detail some of the earliest events in American history in Encounters in the New World.
Providing fascinating commentary along the way, Lepore seamlessly links together primary sources that illustrate the powerful clash of cultures in the Americas. Through emotional eyewitness accounts -- memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, private correspondence -- formal documents, official reports, and journalistic reportage, dramatic stories of the New World are revealed, including:
* A Jesuit priest's chronicle of life among his Iroquois captors
* Aztec records of forbidding omens
* John Smith's account of cannibalism among the British residents of Jamestown
* Memoirs by members of Cortes's expedition
* Reminiscences of an escaped slave
A special 16-page color cartographic section, including maps from both Europe and North America, provides a fascinating look at how the maps' creators saw themselves and the world around them.
Providing fascinating commentary along the way, Lepore seamlessly links together primary sources that illustrate the powerful clash of cultures in the Americas. Through emotional eyewitness accounts -- memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, private correspondence -- formal documents, official reports, and journalistic reportage, dramatic stories of the New World are revealed, including:
* A Jesuit priest's chronicle of life among his Iroquois captors
* Aztec records of forbidding omens
* John Smith's account of cannibalism among the British residents of Jamestown
* Memoirs by members of Cortes's expedition
* Reminiscences of an escaped slave
A special 16-page color cartographic section, including maps from both Europe and North America, provides a fascinating look at how the maps' creators saw themselves and the world around them.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 175 | Language: English | Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR | ISBN: 0195154916
FormatPaperback
Pages175
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0195154916
EAN9780195154917
PublisherOXFORD UNIV PR
Publication Date2002-04-04
Edition1
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.14 Pounds
Length9.94 Inches
Width7.94 Inches
Height0.46 Inches
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