Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast

By Gregory A. Waselkov

Book Overview

Twelve original essays highlight new approaches and current work by leading historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists. Contributors are Helen Hornbeck Tanner; Amy Turner Bushnell; Daniel Usner, Jr.; Stephen Potter; Patricia Galloway; James Merrell; Martha McCartney; Marvin Smith; Vernon James Knight, Jr.; and the editors, Peter Wood; Gregory A. Waselkov; and M. Thomas Hatley, who also provided a preface and introductions to the book's three thematic sections (Geography and Population, Politics and Economics, Symbols and Society). Combining ethnohistory, archaeology, anthropology, cartography, and demography, Powhatan s Mantle is a provocative introduction to the dramatically changing world of southeastern Indians during the colonial era."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297270
• ISBN13: 9780803297272
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 7.3"