The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Zusatztext “ With a rich sense of Cherokee culture and history . . . the authors . . . recount a human story! not only tragic but also unbelievably heroic.”— Los Angeles Times Informationen zum Autor Theda Perdue is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her works include Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears . A recipient of several fellowships and grants, including those from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Newberry Library, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Perdue received her MA and PhD from University of Georgia. Michael Green  is a London-based writer who previously taught economics at Warsaw University and was a senior official in the British government. He is the coauthor (with Matthew Bishop) of Philanthrocapitalism. Colin Calloway  is a British American historian. He is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. Klappentext In the early nineteenth century! the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them! and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government?s betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation! follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears! and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy! the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building?and in their determined survival! it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit. Zusammenfassung In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government's betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building-and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit....

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Colin Calloway, Michael Green, Michael D Green, Michael D. Green, Theda Perdue, Perdue Theda
• Mitarbeit: Colin G Calloway (Herausgeber), Colin G. Calloway (Herausgeber), Calloway Colin G. (Herausgeber), Colin Calloway (Einführung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 24.06.2008
• EAN: 9780143113676
• ISBN: 978-0-14-311367-6
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 126 mm x 190 mm x 12 mm
• Serien: Penguin Library of American In; Penguin Library of American In
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, HISTORY / Indigenous / General, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity, Relating to Native American people / First Americans