The Native Population Of The American In 1492

Author : William M. Denevan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0299134342

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The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 by William M. Denevan Pdf

William M. Denevan writes that, "The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650. In this collection of essays, historians, anthropologists, and geographers discuss the discrepancies in the population estimates and the evidence for the post-European decline. Woodrow Borah, Angel Rosenblat, William T. Sanders, and others touch on such topics as the Indian slave trade, diseases, military action, and the disruption of the social systems of the native peoples. Offering varying points of view, the contributors critically analyze major hemispheric and regional data and estimates for pre- and post-European contact. This revised edition features a new introduction by Denevan reviewing recent literature and providing a new hemispheric estimate of 54 million, a foreword by W. George Lovell of Queen's University, and a comprehensive updating of the already extensive bibliography. Research in this subject is accelerating, with contributions from many disciplines. The discussions and essays presented here can serve both as an overview of past estimates, conflicts, and methods and as indicators of new approaches and perspectives to this timely subject.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0209134348

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The Native Population of the American in 1492 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Russell Thornton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080612220X

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American Indian Holocaust and Survival by Russell Thornton Pdf

Demographic overview of North American history describing in detail the holocaust that occurred to the Indians.

Author : Catherine M. Cameron,Paul Kelton,Alan C. Swedlund
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816500246

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Beyond Germs by Catherine M. Cameron,Paul Kelton,Alan C. Swedlund Pdf

Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America challenges the hypothesis that the massive depopulation of the New World was primarily caused by diseases brought by Europeans, which scholars used for decades to explain the decimation of the indigenous peoples of North America. Contributors expertly argue that blaming germs downplays the active role of Europeans in inciting wars, destroying livelihoods, and erasing identities.

Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679743378

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America in 1492 by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Pdf

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall. Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago.

Author : Jayme A. Sokolow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315498676

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The Great Encounter by Jayme A. Sokolow Pdf

Traditional histories of North and South America often leave the impression that Native American peoples had little impact on the colonies and empires established by Europeans after 1492. This groundbreaking study, which spans more than 300 years, demonstrates the agency of indigenous peoples in forging their own history and that of the Western Hemisphere. By putting the story of the indigenous peoples and their encounters with Europeans at the center, a new history of the "New World" emerges in which the Native Americans become vibrant and vitally important components of the British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese empires. In fact, their presence was the single most important factor in the development of the colonial world. By discussing the "great encounter" of peoples and cultures, this book provides a valuable, new perspective on the history of the Americas.

Author : Christopher Columbus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000012952243

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Letter of Christopher Columbus to Rafael Sanchez by Christopher Columbus Pdf

Author : William M. DENEVAN,ALACRAN.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:644045556

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The Native Population of the Americas in 1492 by William M. DENEVAN,ALACRAN. Pdf

Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781725342071

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Native American America by Tim McNeese Pdf

For thousands of years, before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and the Europeans, the vast American landscape was home to millions of Native Americans, whose ancestors still remain on the land today. They formed a wide variety of regional cultures, dotting the unspoiled environs stretching from the stark, red rock formations of the Southwest to the thick forestlands of the Northeast. Through descriptive and captivating text enhanced by detailed images and informative sidebars, readers will examine how each Indian culture group adapted to their unique surroundings and turned nature into home, as they built their houses, hunted for food, raised their children, and worshiped their gods.

Author : David P. Henige
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080613044X

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Numbers from Nowhere by David P. Henige Pdf

In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.

Author : Jack D. Forbes
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252091254

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The American Discovery of Europe by Jack D. Forbes Pdf

The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book paints a clear picture of the diverse and complex societies that constituted the Americas before 1492 and reveals the surprising Native American involvements in maritime trade and exploration. Starting with an encounter by Columbus himself with mysterious people who had apparently been carried across the Atlantic on favorable currents, Jack D. Forbes proceeds to explore the seagoing expertise of early Americans, theories of ancient migrations, the evidence for human origins in the Americas, and other early visitors coming from Europe to America, including the Norse. The provocative, extensively documented, and heartfelt conclusions of The American Discovery of Europe present an open challenge to received historical wisdom.

Author : Theda Perdue,Michael D. Green
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199746109

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North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction by Theda Perdue,Michael D. Green Pdf

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America. About the Series: Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam.

Author : Noble David Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521627303

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Born to Die by Noble David Cook Pdf

The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. Amerindians had never before experienced the deadly Eurasian sicknesses brought by the foreigners in wave after wave: smallpox, measles, typhus, plague, influenza, malaria, yellow fever. These diseases literally conquered the Americas before the sword could be unsheathed. From 1492 to 1650, from Hudson's Bay in the north to southernmost Tierra del Fuego, disease weakened Amerindian resistance to outside domination. The Black Legend, which attempts to place all of the blame of the injustices of conquest on the Spanish, must be revised in light of the evidence that all Old World peoples carried, though largely unwittingly, the germs of the destruction of American civilization.

Author : Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679743378

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America in 1492 by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Pdf

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall. Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago.

Author : Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781416949008

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Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann,Rebecca Stefoff Pdf

A companion book for young readers based upon the explorations of the Americas in 1491, before those of Christopher Columbus.