The Emperor's Giraffe and Other Stories of Cultures in Contact

by Samuel M. Wilson

Book Overview

An outbreak of a disease known as the "black vomit" prevents the English from strengthening their hold in "The New World" in the eighteenth century, with huge repercussions; the untimely death of an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081333585X
• ISBN13: 9780813335858
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Enjoyable Historical Essays

This is a wonderful, well written collection of essays on historical cultural contacts. I particularly enjoyed Wilson's essays on Native American retribution ... Wilson offers a balanced discourse on the tension between archaeologists and Native Americans. Highly recommended!