THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAS, Vol. 1) North America, Part 1

Introduction / Frank Solomon And Stuart B. Schwartz -- Testimonies: The Making And Reading Of Native South American Historical Sources / Frank Salomon -- Ethnography In South America: The First Two Hundred Years / Sabine Maccormack -- The Earliest South American Lifeways / Thomas F. Lynch -- The Maritime, Highland, Forest Dynamic And The Origins Of Complex Culture / Anna C. Roosevelt -- The Evolution Of Andean Diversity: Regional Formations (500 B.c.e.-c.e. 600) / Izumi Shimada -- Andean Urbanism And Statecraft (c.e. 550-1450) / Luis Lumbreras -- Chiefdoms: The Prevalence And Persistence Of Señoríos Naturales 1400 To European Conquest / Juan And Judith Villamarín -- Archaeology Of The Caribbean Region / Louis Allaire -- Prehistory Of The Southern Cone / Mario A. Rivera -- The Fourfold Domain: Inka Power And Its Social Foundations / María Rostworowski And Craig Morris -- The Crises And Transformations Of Invaded Societies: The Caribbean (1492-1580) / Neil L. Whitehead -- The Crises And Transformations Of Invaded Societies: Andean Area (1500-1580) / Karen Spalding -- The Crises And Transformations Of Invaded Societies: Coastal Brazil In The Sixteenth Century / John M. Monteiro -- The Crises And Transformations Of Invaded Societies: The La Plata Basin (1535-1650) / Juan Carlos Garavaglia -- The Colonial Condition In The Quechua-aymara Heartland (1570-1780) / Thierry Saignes -- Warfare, Reorganization, And Readaptation At The Margins Of Spanish Rule: The Southern Margin (1573-1882) / Kristine L. Jones -- The Western Margins Of Amazonia From The Early Sixteenth To The Early Nineteenth Century / Anne Christine Taylor -- Warfare, Reorganization, And Readaptation At The Margins Of Spanish Rule-- The Chaco And Paraguay (1573-1882) / James Schofield Saeger -- Destruction, Resistance, And Transformation-- Southern, Coastal And Northern Brazil (1580-1890) / Robin M. Wright -- Native Peoples Confront Colonial Regimes In Northeastern South America (c. 1500-1900) / Neil L. Whitehead -- New Peoples And New Kinds Of People: Adaptation, Readjustment, And Ethnogenesis In South American Indigenous Societies (colonial Era) / Stuart B. Schwartz And Frank Salomon -- The Republic Of Indians In Revolt (c. 1680-1790) Luis Miguel Glave -- Andean Highland Peasants And The Trials Of Nation Making During The Nineteenth Century / Brooke Larson -- Indigenous Peoples And The Rise Of Independent Nation-states In Lowland South America / Jonathan D. Hill -- Andean People In The Twentieth Century / Xavier Albó -- Lowland Peoples Of The Twentieth Century / David Maybury-lewis. Edited By Frank Salomon, Stuart B. Schwartz. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Introduction To A Survey Of The Native Prehistoric Cultures Of Mesoamerica / Richard E.w. Adams -- The Paleoindian And Archaic Cultures Of Mesoamerica / Robert N. Zeitlin And Judith Francis Zeitlin -- The Preclassic Societies Of The Central Highlands Of Mesoamerica / David C. Grove -- The Precolumbian Cultures Of The Gulf Coast / Richard A. Diehl -- The Maya Lowlands: Pioneer Farmers To Merchant Princes / Norman Hammond -- The Central Mexican Highlands From The Rise Of Teotihuacan To The Decline Of Tula / George L. Cowgill -- Western And Northwestern Mexico / Shirley S. Gorenstein -- Cultural Evolution In Oaxaca: The Origins Of The Zapotec And Mixtec Civilizations / Joyce Marcus And Kent V. Flannery -- The Southeast Frontiers Of Mesoamerica / Payson D. Sheets -- The Maya Highlands And The Adjacent Pacific Coast / Robert J. Sharer -- The Aztecs And Their Contemporaries: The Central And Eastern Mexican Highlands / Thomas H. Charlton -- Mesoamerica Since The Spanish Invasion: An Overview / Murdo J. Macleod -- Legacies Of Resistance, Adaptation, And Tenacity: History Of The Native Peoples Of Northwest Mexico / Susan M. Deeds -- The Native Peoples Of Northeastern Mexico / David Frye -- The Indigenous Peoples Of Western Mexico From The Spanish Invasion To The Present / Eric Van Young -- Native Peoples Of Colonial Central Mexico / Sarah L. Cline -- Native Peoples Of Central Mexico Since Independence / Frans J. Schryer -- Native Peoples Of The Gulf Coast From The Colonial Period To The Present / Susan Deans-smith -- The Indigenous Population Of Oaxaca From The Sixteenth Century To The Present / Maria De Los Angeles Romero Frizzi -- The Lowland Maya, From The Conquest To The Present / Grant D. Jones -- The Highland Maya / W. George Lovell. Edited By Richard E.w. Adams, Murdo J. Macleod. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Pt. 1. Native Views Of History / Peter Nabokov -- Native Peoples In Euro-american Historiography / Wilcomb E. Washburn, Bruce G. Trigger -- The First Americans And The Differentiation Of Hunter-gatherer Cultures / Dean R. Snow -- Indigenous Farmers / Linda S. Cordell, Bruce D. Smith -- Agricultural Chiefdoms Of The Eastern Woodlands / Bruce D. Smith -- Entertaining Strangers : North America In The Sixteenth Century / Bruce G. Trigger, William R. Swagerty -- Native People And European Settlers In Eastern North America, 1600-1783 / Neal Salisbury -- The Expansion Of European Colonization To The Mississippi Valley, 1780-1880 / Michael D. Green -- Pt. 2. The Great Plains From The Arrival Of The Horse To 1885 / Loretta Fowler -- The Greater Southwest And California From The Beginning Of European Settlement To The 1880s / Howard R. Lamar, Sam Truett -- The Northwest From The Beginning Of Trade With Europeans To The 1880s / Robin Fisher -- The Reservation Period, 1880-1960 / Frederick E. Hoxie -- The Northern Interior, 1600 To Modern Times / Arthur J. Ray -- The Arctic From Norse Contact To Modern Times / David Damas -- The Native American Renaissance, 1960 To 1995 / Wilcomb E. Washburn. Edited By Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present.

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In this wide-ranging history of the Native peoples of North America from prehistory to the present, edited by a Canadian archaeologist and a former historian with the Smithsonian, a variety of authors present a huge amount of information in a very concise format. Chapters are both thematic (Native peoples in Euro-American historiography) and regional (the Arctic from Norse contact to modern times). Where experts have differing opinions, such as the earliest dates for Native peoples in the Americas or the population of North America in 1492, authors explain their positions and refer readers to other points of view through discussion and footnotes. As the broad nature of the essays precludes presenting specific tribal information, this work complements other recent reference works, such as the Department of Commerce's American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas (1996). Despite indifferent indexes and occasional information gaps, these volumes should have a prominent place in most library reference collections.Mary B. Davis, Huntington Free Lib., Bronx

The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part Two), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the native cultures of Mesoamerica before and after their first contact with the Europeans. The various chapters balance theoretical points of view as they trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Aztec, the Zapotec, and the Tarascan. The chapters covering the prehistory of Mesoamerica offer explanations for the rise and fall of the Classic Maya, the Olmec, and the Aztec, giving multiple interpretations of debated topics, such as the nature of Olmec culture. Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States. This is the first major survey of research on the indigenous peoples of South America from the earliest peopling of the continent to the present since Julian Steward's Handbook of South American Indians was published half a century ago. Although this volume concentrates on continental South America, peoples in the Caribbean and lower Central America who were linguistically or culturally connected are also discussed. The volume's emphasis is on self-perceptions of the indigenous peoples of South America at various times and under differing situations. v. 1. North America / edited by Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn (2 v.) v. 2. Mesoamerica / edited by Richard E.W. Adams, Murdo J. MacLeod (2 v.) v. 3. South America / edited by Frank Saloman, Stuart B. Schwartz (2 v.). Mystified about the origins and cultural development of the strange people they called los indios, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquerors of Mesoamerica could do little more than speculate.