Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America by Daniel K.

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Facing East from Indian Country by Daniel K. Richter In the beginning, North America was Indian country, but Native Americans soon yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 make sense of a new world. Well into the seventeenth century, the most profound challenges to Indian life came less from the arrival of a relative handful of European colonists than from the biological, economic, and environmental forces the newcomers unleashed. Drawing upon their own traditions, Indian communities reinvented themselves and carved out a place in a world dominated by transatlantic European empires. In 1776, however, when some of Britains colonists rebelled against that imperial world, they overturned the system that had made Euro-American and Native coexistence possible. Eastern North America only ceased to be an Indian country because the revolutionaries denied the continents first peoples a place in the nation they were creating.In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Richter employs the historians craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nations birth and identity. Notes From its title to its very last page, Facing East from Indian Country spins us around. But rather than dizzying, this turnabout is clarifying, freeing us from the blinders of a European perspective on the early American experience. Vast in scope yet intimate in its attention to particular people, places, and moments, Richters book is a moving, thought-provoking work of scholarship. -- James H. Merrell, author of Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier Richter offers a brilliant retelling of the old stories of European colonies and empires through Native eyes. Facing East from Indian Country may be as close as any scholar has come to synthesizing an "Indian perspective" on early American history This is a book not to be missed. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing Indian With keen insight, deep reading, and a sparkling wit, Richter makes new and compelling sense of American history, radically shifting our perspective on the past. Balancing vivid imagination and a respect for the unknown, Richter crafts a powerful and engaging story that is essential to understanding our place in time on this continent. -- Alan Taylor, author of William Coopers Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Author Biography 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. Table of Contents Prologue: Early America as Indian Country 1. Imagining a Distant New World 2. Confronting a Material New World 3. Living with Europeans 4. Native Voices in a Colonial World 5. Native Peoples in an Imperial World 6. Separate Creations Epilogue: Eulogy from Indian Country A Technical Note Notes Acknowledgments Index Review 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 early European–Indian relations by looking east from the Mississippi River rather than west from the Atlantic Ocean… Richter approaches, from the Indian perspective, the history of early contact with Europeans through the founding of the U. S., with emphasis on tribes immeasurable contribution to the history of the continent. He culls Native voices from surviving documents and records, pulling Indians from the periphery of white Americas memory and making them the focal point of the post-contact story. -- Tom Wanamaker * Indian Country Today *Richter insists that we must look over the shoulders of American Indians to see the Europeans who settled the New World to have a complete understanding of our origins. His depiction of how these original Americans adapted to the newcomers and how they were inevitably betrayed by generations devoted to freedom and opportunity are especially telling. * Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News *[Richter] has written a provocative new interpretation of early America from pre-contact to the early 19th century… [H]e places early America in the context of Native American society and history and not solely in the rush of colonial expansion… Historians of the American West and scholars of Western Native American studies will find much value in Richters retelling of early American History. -- Joseph Key * Journal of the West *Most American histories treat North Americas indigenous peoples as ancillary to the more important story of the establishment of a European nation in the New World. What would happen if one shifted focus and transformed the usual bit-players into stars? Richter…makes that shift and produces what may, for its impeccable use of primary sources, smoothly well-wrought prose, and passionate argument, become a classic. -- Patricia Monaghan * Booklist *Richter demythicizes the standard accounts…to demonstrate how white settlers consciously created false images to justify economic, religious, and military exploitation of Native inhabitants… This [is an] innovative and well-written book. -- M. L. Tate * Choice *An excellent, ambitious attempt to restore to history long-overlooked Indians who neither uncompromisingly resisted…nor wholeheartedly assimilated in the face of white encroachment… A hallmark in recent Native American historiography that merits wide attention. * Kirkus Reviews *Richter here offers a masterly work that eschews the long-standing perception that Native Americans were nothing more than marginalized bystanders as Europeans colonized North America. Focusing on the period between the 15th and 18th centuries, the author instead shows that Native American communities adapted to the many stresses introduced by the arrival of the Europeans and were active participants in creating a new way of life on the continent… [He] provides a valuable perspective that is often overlooked in books about the same period. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries. -- John Burch * Library Journal *At the center of this bold and thoroughly astonishing history of Native Americans are narratives of three Indians generally known to Euro-Americans: Pocahontas, Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha, and the Algonquin warrior Metacom, also known as King Philip. Telling each of these stories—a romance, the life of a saint, the destruction of a noble savage—from the European and then the Native American perspective, Richter elucidates an alternative history of America from Columbus to just after the Revolution… Gracefully written and argued, Richters compelling research and provocative claims make this an important addition to the literature for general readers of both Native American and U.S. studies. * Publishers Weekly *Richter offers a brilliant retelling of the old stories of European colonies and empires through Native eyes. Facing East from Indian Country may be as close as any scholar has come to synthesizing an Indian perspective on early American history. This is a book not to be missed. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing IndianFrom its title to its very last page, Facing East from Indian Country spins us around. But rather than dizzying, this turnabout is clarifying, freeing us from the blinders of a European perspective on the early American experience. Vast in scope yet intimate in its attention to particular people, places, and moments, Richters book is a moving, thought-provoking work of scholarship. -- James H. Merrell, author of Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania FrontierWith keen insight, deep reading, and a sparkling wit, Richter makes new and compelling sense of American history, radically shifting our perspective on the past. Balancing vivid imagination and a respect for the unknown, Richter crafts a powerful and engaging story that is essential to understanding our place in time on this continent. -- Alan Taylor, author of William Coopers Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Promotional From its title to its very last page, Facing East from Indian Country spins us around. But rather than dizzying, this turnabout is clarifying, freeing us from the blinders of a European perspective on the early American experience. Vast in scope yet intimate in its attention to particular people, places, and moments, Richters book is a moving, thought-provoking work of scholarship. -- James H. Merrell, author of Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier Richter offers a brilliant retelling of the old stories of European colonies and empires through Native eyes. Facing East from Indian Country may be as close as any scholar has come to synthesizing an "Indian perspective" on early American history This is a book not to be missed. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing Indian With keen insight, deep reading, and a sparkling wit, Richter makes new and compelling sense of American history, radically shifting our perspective on the past. Balancing vivid imagination and a respect for the unknown, Richter crafts a powerful and engaging story that is essential to understanding our place in time on this continent. -- Alan Taylor, author of William Coopers Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic Prizes Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize for History 2002 Review Quote With keen insight, deep reading, and a sparkling wit, Richter makes new and compelling sense of American history, radically shifting our perspective on the past. Balancing vivid imagination and a respect for the unknown, Richter crafts a powerful and engaging story that is essential to understanding our place in time on this continent. Details ISBN0674011171 Author Daniel K. Richter Short Title FACING EAST FROM INDIAN COUNTR Publisher Harvard University Press Language English ISBN-10 0674011171 ISBN-13 9780674011175 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2003 Publication Date 2003-04-30 Imprint Harvard University Press Subtitle A Native History of Early America Place of Publication Cambridge, Mass Country of Publication United States Affiliation University of Pennsylvania Edition Description Revised Pages 336 DOI 10.1604/9780674011175 UK Release Date 2003-04-30 AU Release Date 2003-04-30 NZ Release Date 2003-04-30 US Release Date 2003-04-30 DEWEY 973.00497 Illustrations 15 halftones, 4 maps Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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