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The History Of The American Indians
Adair, James. Ed(S): Braund, Kathryn E.Holland
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Description for The History Of The American Indians
Paperback. Details the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period. Editor(s): Braund, Kathryn E.Holland. Num Pages: 608 pages, 7 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 939.
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period.
James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. During that time he covered the territory from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. He encountered and lived among Indians, advised governors, spent time with settlers, and worked tirelessly for the expansion of British interests against the French and the Spanish. Adair's acceptance by the Creeks, Choctaws, Cherokees, and Chickasaws provided him the opportunity to ... Read more
A fully annotated edition of a classic work detailing the cultures of five southeastern American Indian tribes during the Contact Period.
James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. During that time he covered the territory from the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River. He encountered and lived among Indians, advised governors, spent time with settlers, and worked tirelessly for the expansion of British interests against the French and the Spanish. Adair's acceptance by the Creeks, Choctaws, Cherokees, and Chickasaws provided him the opportunity to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817355784
SKU
V9780817355784
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About Adair, James. Ed(S): Braund, Kathryn E.Holland
Kathryn E. Holland Braund is Associate Professor of History at Auburn University and editor of A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida, written by Bernard Romans.
Reviews for The History Of The American Indians
Adair's History is a crucial primary account of America's southeastern Indian tribes - the Cherokee, Catawba, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw - during the 18th century.... Adair's prose falls somewhere between Edward Gibbon's and James Fenimore Cooper's: by turns magisterial, windy and vividly concrete.... Braund, the editor of this fine edition,... has mined the archives to enlighten readers on Adair's years ... Read more