Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword: the Columbian legacy
  • [1.] The normative stance: A moral history of Indian-White relations revisited
  • Forked tongues: moral judgments in Indian history
  • [2.] New world crusades: Some thoughts on the ethnohistory of missions
  • The scholastic frontier in western Massachusetts
  • White legend: the Jesuit missions in Maryland
  • The power of print in the eastern woodlands
  • Were Indian conversions bona fide?
  • [3.] Confluences: Through another glass darkly: early Indian views of Europeans
  • At the water's edge: trading in the sixteenth century
  • The rise and fall of the Powhatan empire
  • Colonial America without the Indians
  • Afterword: the scholar's obligation to native peoples.