After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

by James Axtell and Axtell James Axtell

Book Overview

This volume is a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost contemporary authority on Indian-European relations in Colonial North America. Arguing that moral judgements have a legitimate place in the writing of history, Axtell scrutinizes the actions of various European invaders--missionaries,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053753
• ISBN13: 9780195053753
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"