The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History)
By James Axtell.
Description
In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effectively argues that the colonial Southeast cannot be fully understood without paying particular attention to its native inhabitants before their large-scale removal in the 1830s.Axtell begins by treating the irruption...
ISBN(s)
080712172X, 9780807121726
