After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

by James Axtell and Axtell James Axtell

Book Overview

This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053761
• ISBN13: 9780195053760
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"