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The great encounter : native peoples and European settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800

By putting the story of the native Americans and their encounters with Europeans at its centre, this work explores a new history in which the indigenous peoples become vibrant and vitally important components of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese empires.
eBook, English, 2015
Routledge, London [England], 2015
1 online resource (262 pages)
9780765609823, 9781315498676, 0765609827, 1315498677
1003227783
Introduction; Chapter 1 Before the Wig and the Dress Coat; Chapter 2 Toward a New World Order; Chapter 3 Suffering a Great Misery; Chapter 4 Rage Without Reason; Chapter 5 Black Rainbows and Sinister Hailstorms; Chapter 6 License My Roving Hands; Chapter 7 Unacquainted with the Laws of the Civilized World; Chapter 8 Beware of the Long Knives; Chapter 9 After Columbus;