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Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League—the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras—to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.
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Very useful work on the Iroquois Confederacy.......2007-02-14
I've found this book to be both insightful and easy to understand. Though this is a well researched and referenced academic text it is accessible to the average reader, assuming an interest in the subject matter.
The Iroquois were a centerpiece of North American colonial life and I would highly suggest this book for those interested in History or Anthropology, as Dr. Richter takes broad approach to his analysis and documents cultural practices and history of interest to many disciplines.
The Masterpiece.......2000-06-28
Daniel Richter, in this astonishing book, does an excellent job explaining social, political and economical aspects of the Iroquois people with strong evidence. This book is a resutl of a big reserach and Richter's dedication to the subject. I would recommend this book not only to students who need to take Native American History, but also to anyone who is interested in learning about the Iroquoi's life and their impacts on the French, the England, and the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries. Even though i am not a native speaker, i really enjoyed reading this book because of Richter's plain English.
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CREATIVE, SCHOLARLY, & VASTLY ENTERTAINING.......2007-08-29
What a treasure to read a well researched, provocative book in the intellectual desert of the mainstream. Dr. Forbes' book is an oasis of reason and evidence measured against mainstream books seeking to make career gains by parroting the already said.
Dr. Forbes is Professor Emeritus, and although his career is not over, he certainly doesn't have to publish or perish. Clearly, this book was a labor of love, and it is filled with hard work and creativity that few can match.
This work challenges the omnipresent mindset that Europeans discovered America and challenges the concomitant assumption that Native Americans do not have agency, nor do they explore or do anything of importance. In other words, Dr. Forbes' book challenges the status quo, something every one of his books has done over the last five decades.
I have read almost every book Dr. Forbes has written, and I can say without equivocation that this book delivers.
Now, when you challenge the status quo you have to have your game down and provide plenty of evidence to support your case. You have to cite, cite, cite or the naysayer conformists will crucify you and your work.
Of course, the naysayer conformists will still crucify you with the complaint that you cited too much. What they are truly upset about is that you provided too much evidence and reason, so they are mad you whooped them on their own court with their ball. So they whine.
For the scientific at heart, for people looking for truth and reason in a mainstream fraught with destitute intellectual anomie, this latest book by Dr. Forbes is a refreshing feast of evidence, creativity, and reason spun with his unique blend of humor, wit, and irony.
Be sure to read this intellectual work par excellence!
I'm Sorry..........2007-07-27
"The American discovery Of Europe" by Jack D. Forbes.
University of Illinois Press, 2007.
I'm sorry. I wanted to like this book based upon the central thesis alone, but. The central thesis is wonderful: due to the prevailing winds and prevailing waves, flotsam from the American continents must have washed up on European shoes long before Christopher Columbus made his voyage of discovery in 1492. As a person of Irish descent, I am happy to see a neglected area of history/geography investigated which would make Ireland more important in the story of mankind. But! Then...
It appeared to me that the author quoted person after person SO his first chapter (entitled "Americans Across The Atlantic"), seemed to be filled more with other people's words than the author's original work. (As an example, look at pages 30 & 31.) My historiography professor once corrected me and told that I had to put some original ideas in between all the citations.
And then!! The author wants to be more than just a little bit politically correct, and he tells us that he will use three (3) different names for Christopher Columbus: English, Italian and Spanish. I looked at the publisher: University of Illinois Press, so I figured that the book was intended for an English-speaking audience ... and all the three different names did was to interrupt the flow of reading the book. Do you know what a Colon is in human anatomy? This kind of political correctness ain't worth it. In future books, I do hope that the author, Jack D. Forbes, uses Karl der Grosse for Charlemagne and Maria Antonia for Marie Antoinette, or is that kind of political correctness not acceptable?
Chapter 4, "Ancient Travelers And Migrations", was interesting, exhibiting the wealth of knowledge the author has on American Indians. But, even here, his prose turned me off. On page 83, he states "The Tuscarora also move north to join the Six Nations". Illogical! The Tuscarora moved north to join the FIVE Nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca), to BECOME the Six Nations. See Wikipedia: "A sixth tribe, the Tuscarora, joined after the original five nations were formed." In my opinion, this is sloppy writing on the part of the writer..
The killer of it all is on the back cover. Professor Hartmut Lutz, Greifswald University, East Germany, is quoted as saying, "...the slaver Christopher Columbus". I would observe that any German professor in a German university should wait for a couple more centuries before he calls any historical figure a slaver, unless, of course, he is addressing Adolf or perhaps Hermann. I am surprised at the lack of sensitivity on the part of the editors of the University of Illinois. I was offended.
For a wonderful thesis: five stars. For writing that did not flow: one star. For silly political correctness: zero stars. If you are writing for an English speaking audience, use the common English names. For maps that are TERRIBLE: zero stars. (See pages 26 and 28. By the way, in this period of global warming, I think that the author's audience is terribly familiar with the effects of the Gulf Stream. If the Gulf Stream stops flowing, Ireland freezes.) Four into six is 1.5 stars, so round up to two stars.
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This innovative volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing the latest developments in historiography of the period. The volume takes a comparative approach, with individual essays examining governance in British, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Native America. As a whole, these essays present the argument that coercive imperial authority has been vastly overrated in previous scholarship due to factors like distance, the primacy of trade over politics, and the refusal of "colonized" peoples to recognize European authority.While some of the essays look at the relationships between imperial centers and colonial peripheries, others examine interactions and experiences of people at the peripheries of their respective empires, including Native Americans, African Americans and Euroamericans. No other book collects essays on the New World empires in one volume.
Contributors:Ida Altman, H.V. Bowen, Philip Boucher, Amy Turner Bushnell, Leslie Choquette, Christine Daniels, Jack P. Greene, Mary Karasch, Wim Klooster, Elizabeth Mancke, Peter S. Onuf, John Jay Tepaske, David J. Weber, Michael Zuckerman.
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This innovative book examines cross-cultural encounters before 1492, focusing in particular on the major cross-cultural influences that transformed Asia and Europe during this period: the ancient silk roads that linked China with the Roman Empire, the spread of the world religions, and the Mongol Empire of the thirteenth century. The author's goal throughout the work is to examine the conditions--political, social, economic, or cultural--that enable one culture to influence, mix with, or suppress another. On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies several distinctive pattern of conversion, conflict, and compromise that emerged from cross-cultural encounters. In doing so, it elucidates that larger historical context of encounters between Europeans and other peoples in modern times. _Old World Encounters_ is ideal for students of world geography, religion, and civilizations.
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NOT Clash of Civilizations but contact and mutual borrowing.......2002-06-13
At least until recent times major civilizations gradually shared, adapted, borrowed, and sometimes transfromed material elements of civilization and even ideas. A wonderful overview of history before European colonialism introduces eaxamples and processes for a valuable perspective that should be read by area specialists and others tending to see things from the view of a single nation, faith, or culture. The pace and shock of change increased with modern communications and powerful force producing perhaps a different story from the period after that so well reviewed in this book. One might start with Phillip Curtin and Wolf's "peoples without history' for this later period.
A cultural contact.......2000-04-25
Jerry Bentley argues against the popular Eurocentric belief that the world began with Christopher Columbus. In other words, before 1492 cross-cultural encounters did not exist. The book analyzes the dynamics of these pre-modern encounters, and seeks to understand cross-cultural conversion. Bentley argues that cultural and religious traditions faced much opposition in foreign territory, and that they rarely won converts unless there were political, social, and economic encouragement. More importantly, was the need for aid from the syncretic process which allowed traditions to gain support in other lands. Bentley offers illustrations to support his argument, however, he often uses sources of bias when they support his argument. Unfortunately, sometimes his arguments seem to contradict each other.
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On December 10, 2001, in the biggest and most destructive mission in SAS recent history, half of the world's most elite regiment took on Al Qaeda's crack forces in Afghanistan. This is the first-hand account of that battle, drawing on the memories of the men who fought in it.
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Good characters.......2005-01-26
This book is a little different from your average SAS book.It is written by a son of a former SAS.The characters are very interesting,from their tifs against each other to their excellent team work to defeat the enemy.
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With this sweeping reinterpretation of early cultural encounters between the English and American natives, Joyce E. Chaplin thoroughly alters our historical view of the origins of English presumptions of racial superiority, and of the role science and technology played in shaping these notions. By placing the history of science and medicine at the very center of the story of early English colonization, Chaplin shows how contemporary European theories of nature and science dramatically influenced relations between the English and Indians within the formation of the British Empire.
In Chaplin's account of the earliest contacts, we find the English--impressed by the Indians' way with food, tools, and iron--inclined to consider Indians as partners in the conquest and control of nature. Only when it came to the Indians' bodies, so susceptible to disease, were the English confident in their superiority. Chaplin traces the way in which this tentative notion of racial inferiority hardened and expanded to include the Indians' once admirable mental and technical capacities. Here we see how the English, beginning from a sense of bodily superiority, moved little by little toward the idea of their mastery over nature, America, and the Indians--and how this progression is inextricably linked to the impetus and rationale for empire.
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Daily Life on the Old Colonial Frontier:
James M. Volo , and
Dorothy Denneen Volo
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The frontier region was the interface between the American wilderness and European-style civilization. To the Europeans, the frontier teemed with undomesticated and unfamiliar beasts. Even its indigenous peoples seemed perplexing, uninhibited, and violent. The frontier wasn't just a place, but a process, too. It was a hazy line between colliding cultures, and a volatile region in which those cultures interacted. This volume explores the frontier, explorers, traders, missionaries, colonists, and native peoples that came into contact. Everyday life is presented with all of its difficulties-the trading, trapping, and farming, not to mention the chronic threat of violence. Examining the period from the perspective of both Europeans and Native Americans, this book features over 40 illustrations, photographs, and maps, making it the perfect source for anyone interested in how people lived on the old colonial frontier.
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English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 19)
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An Annotated Bibliography of European Anglicisms
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This companion volume to the Dictionary of European Anglicisms and English in Europe (also edited by Professor Gorlach) provides a critical bibliography of works concerned with the import of English words and phrases into sixteen European languages. The book covers an international range of foreign-word dictionaries, etymological dictionaries, and general dictionaries; books and articles devoted to the influence of English on the language in question; works restricted to individual levels of influence (e.g. phonology, morphology, etc.); works dealing with the English influence in specific fields, in individual styles, regions, or social classes; corpus-oriented studies; and major works documenting earlier influences of English.
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Romans in a New World shows how the ancient Romans haunted the Spanish conquest of the New World, more often than not as passionately rejected models. While the conquistadors themselves and their publicists challenged the reputations of the Romans for incomparable military genius and daring, Spanish critics of the conquest launched a concerted assault upon two other prominent uses of ancient Rome as a model: as an exemplar of imperialistic motives and behavior fit for Christians to follow, and as a yardstick against which to measure the cultural level of the natives of the New World.
In the course of this debate, many Spaniards were inspired to think more deeply on their own ethnic ancestry and identity, as Spanish treatment of the New World natives awakened the slumbering memory of Roman treatment of the Iberian tribes whom modern Spaniards were now embracing as their truest ancestors. At the same time, growing awareness of the cultural practices--especially the religious rituals--of the American natives framed a new perspective on both the pre-Christian ancestors of modern Europeans and even on the survival of "pagan" customs among modern Europeans themselves. In this incisive study, David A. Lupher addresses the increasingly debated question of the impact the discovery of the New World had upon Europeans' perceptions of their identity and place in history.
Romans in a New World holds much to interest both classicists and students of the history and culture of early modern Europe--especially, though not exclusively, historians of Spain. David A. Lupher's concern with the ideology of imperialism and colonization and with cross-cultural negotiations will be useful to students of cultural studies, as well.
David A. Lupher is Professor of Classics, University of Puget Sound.
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