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Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America

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Description for Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Paperback. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. In this book, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people centre-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 482.

In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.

Viewed from Indian country, the sixteenth century was an era in which Native people discovered Europeans and struggled to ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674011175
SKU
V9780674011175
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Daniel K. Richter
Daniel K. Richter is Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History and the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews for Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Thanks to the work of Richter and others like him who have set out to break with the traditional Eurocentric narrative, ‘the people without history’ have been given back their voice.
J. H. Elliott
New York Review of Books
In his acclaimed volume Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel Richter turns the tables on ‘conventional’ histories of ... Read more

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