North American Indians

Informationen zum Autor Theda Perdue is Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of many books, including Sifters:Native American Women's Lives and Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. She is past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians and the American Society for Ethnohistory, and will serve as president of the Southern Historical Association in 2011. Michael D. Green is Professor Emeritus of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has held fellowships from the Newberry Library and the Rockefeller Foundation and is former chair of the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. Klappentext This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narrative rests on the premise that indigenous nations retain sovereign rights, and it explores the ways in which contests over those rights shaped their histories. Zusammenfassung This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narrative rests on the premise that indigenous nations retain sovereign rights, and it explores the ways in which contests over those rights shaped their histories.

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• Authors: Michael Green, Michael D Green, Michael D. Green, Michael D. (Professor Emeritus of American Studies Green, Theda Perdue, Theda (Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture Perdue, Theda/ Green Perdue, Perdue Theda
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.2010
• EAN: 9780195307542
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530754-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 175 mm x 10 mm
• Series: A Very Short Introductions; A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION; Very Short Introductions; A Very Short Introductions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; North America, HISTORY / North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, History of the Americas, North America (USA and Canada), HISTORY / Indigenous / General