Encounters in the New World
Subtitle: a history in documents
By: [edited by] Jill Lepore
Series: Pages from history; Pages from history
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781423774891
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: First contact with Europeans; Sources; Indians; Juvenile literature; History
Description: A collection of documents illustrating encounters between Native American peoples and a variety of European newcomers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Includes maps, journals, advertisements, and letters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: What is a document?; title: How to read a document; title: Introduction; title: On the turtle's back ; Why Europe? ; Dealing with the documents; title: Mapping the world; title: Ptolemy's revolution ; Christian world ; Expanding world ; America emerges ; Vanishing maps ; Lines and circles; title: First encounters; title: Prophecies, plans, and fantasies ; First impressions ; Gods? Savages? ; Dividing the sexes ; Catalog of nature ; Indians abroad; title: Conquest and resistance; title: Montezuma, Quetzalcoatl, and Cortes ; Eight-year journey ; Invading the interior ; Great debate ; Missions and presidios; title: Furs, rivers, and black robes; title: Peoples of the Longhouse ; New France ; Society of Jesus ; New worlds, new women ; Covenants of war and peace; title: English arrive; title: Go west ; Roanoke, the lost colony ; Powhatan and his people ; Founding Jamestown ; Pocahontas and her legacy; title: Africans in America; title: Kidnapped ; Tips for slave traders ; Ships of death ; For sale ; Africans' new worlds ; Two views ; Runaways and rebels; title: Planting New England; title: Metacom's Rebellion ; Manitou and the city on a hill ; Marking the landscape ; Praying Indians.