First encounters
Subtitle: native voices on the coming of the Europeans
By: [edited by] Howard B. Leavitt.
Contributors: Leavitt, Howard B.
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780313351310; 9780313351327
Subjects: First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Sources; Colonies -- History -- Sources; Acculturation -- History -- Sources; Indigenous peoples -- History -- Sources; Indigenous peoples -- Biography; Europeans -- History -- Sources; Colonists -- History -- Sources; Conquerors -- History -- Sources
Genres: Sources; Biography
Description: "First Encounters: Native voices on the coming of the Europeans" reaches back to add important, often overlooked viewpoints to our understanding of history, gathering together accounts describing the initial experiences of indigenous peoples around the world with European explorers, missionaries, traders, soldiers and settlers.... First encounters brings together 42 authentic, first-person accounts, organized geographically in sections on Africa, North America, South America, Greater Australia, and Asia. Selections, each with editors notes, provide vivid, detailed accounts of the culture clashes that defined an era."--BACK COVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.