The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Entry/Object ID
2017.109
Description
Axtell explores the cultural and social adjustments that occured when white Europeans met and tried to "civilize" Native Americans. He explores myths and illustrates how having the Indians as adversaries helped mold an American identity, leading to the American Revolution.
Chapters include:
1. Ethnohistory: An Historian's Viewpoint
2. The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping?: A Case Study
3. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
4. Dr. Wheelock's Little Red School
5. Last Rights: The Acculturation of Native Funerals in Colonial North America
6. The Scholastic Philosophy of the Wilderness
7. The White Indians of Colonial America
8. Scalping: The Ethnohistory of a Moral Question
9. The English Colonial Impact on Indian Culture
10. The Indian Impact on English Colonial Culture
Physical Description: 5.25"x8" softcover
white book with red and black lettering