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Informationen zum Autor Kenneth Townsend earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991! two years after joining the faculty of the Department of History at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach! South Carolina. Townsend now serves as chair of the Department of History. He is the author of World War II and the American Indian (2000)! South Carolina (2008) and varied articles! and he is revising a book-length manuscript addressing the World War II home front in the Southeastern United States. In summer 2006 Townsend embedded with U.S. Army units in Kabul and Kandahar! Afghanistan and is nowcompleting a project titled "Shadows of War" that examines the personal imprint of war on soldiers and their families. Mark A. Nicholas received his PhD from Lehigh University in 2006! and teaches at Florida Atlantic University. With Joel W. Martin! he edited Native Americans! Christianity! and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press! 2010). He has several ongoing projects! including a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University. Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press. Klappentext This text is a comprehensive narrative which covers the complexity and diversity of Native history from their arrival on this continent to the 21st century. The text addresses the theme that Indians have consciously struggled to preserve their cultures and their place in America and they have worked to shape their own future. Zusammenfassung First Americans provides a history of Native Americans! from their earliest appearance in North America to the present! that covers the complexity and diversity of their past. The text demonstrates Native Americans' participation in determining their own future and helps students place Native American history in context with national and international developments. Present throughout the text is the "native voice!" giving American Indians' perspectives on historical developments. The text also enforces the reality that native people retain a presence in the U.S. today as a growing population with a rich diversity of roles! ideas! and contributions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Native North America before European ContactChapter 2 Native Peoples and European Newcomers! 982-1585Chapter 3 Spanish Borderlands! 1527-1758Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands! 1607-1689Chapter 5 Empire! 1700-1763Chapter 6 The Indians' Revolution! 1763-1814Chapter 7 Removal! 1801-1846Chapter 8 Western Indians and the United States! 1800-1850Chapter 9 The Civil War Years! 1861-1865Chapter 10 Conflicting Postwar Directions! 1865-1877Chapter 11 The Struggle for Cultural Identity! 1877-1910Chapter 12 Progressivism and World War I: Charting Their Own Course in the Twentieth Century! 1900-1920Chapter 13 Post-War Directions for Native Americans! 1918-1929Chapter 14 The Great Depression! 1929-1940Chapter 15 American Indians Join the War Effort! 1940-1945Chapter 16 Redefining the Status of Native Americans in Post-World War II America! 1943-1962Chapter 17 Indian Activism in the Age of Liberalism! 1961-1980Chapter 18 Self-Determination to Decolonization: Native Americans into the Twenty-First Century ...
