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The American Indian Frontier.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; PART I THE INDIANS; CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN; The Lost Ten Tribes; A ""Transplanted Chinaman""; Old World Kin of the Indian; Various Types of Indians; The Origin of the Indian Languages-Eskimo Related to Turkish; Navajo Related to Chinese; Australians and Polynesians in America; The Asiatic Origins of Indian Civilization; Norse Influence on the Indian; Polynesian Influence on the Incas and Aztecs; CHAPTER II HOW THE INDIAN LIVED; The Numerical Strength of the Indians; Economic Pressure; Ownership of Land; Private Ownership.
- Social Classes and SlaveryPolitical Society; The Indian's Industrial Disadvantages; CHAPTER III HOW THE INDIAN TRIED PROHIBITION BUT DRANK TOO MUCH; Aztec Prohibition, Enforcement and Bootlegging; The Breakdown of Aztec Prohibition; Liquor in North America Introduced by Europeans; Manhattan, ""The-Place-Where-We-All-Became-Drunk""; Rum-Selling Traders; The North American Tribes Themselves Adopt Prohibition; Colonial and State Prohibition for the Indians; Native North American Bootleggers; CHAPTER IV SMALLPOX AND OTHER DISEASES AMONG THE INDIANS; Smallpox, Measles, and Tuberculosis.
- The ""Social Diseases""The Plague Which Preceded the ""Chosen People""; To the West, in Advance of the Frontier of Settlement; The Pawnee Example; Misleading Figures; Disease in Latin America; The Christian Attitude; The Indian Attitude; CHAPTER V THE PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERIES AND THE MEANING OF COLUMBUS; Further Search for the Northwest Passage; The Historical Rôle of Columbus; PART II THE CONQUERORS; CHAPTER VI SPANISH AIMS IN THE AMERICAS; The Inimitable Text of the ""Requisition""; CHAPTER VII THE SPANIARDS KILL OFF THE FIRST INDIANS AND REPLACE THEM WITH NEGROES.
- The Bishop of Burgos versus ColumbusColumbus and the First Indian Labour Gangs; Friar Ovando and the Reorganized Labour Gangs; Ferdinand and the First American Labour Legislation; Cardinal Ximenes and the Conclusion of the First Act; CHAPTER VIII THEY PUT THE REST TO WORK; Experiments; The New Laws as a Result; The Revolt of the Vested Interests; The Perfected Forced-Labour System; The End; The Spanish Forced-Labour System in Brazil; Portuguese Modifications; CHAPTER IX THE CATHOLIC MISSIONS: FROM CANADA TO PARAGUAY; Missioners on Old World Frontiers.
- Las Casas, the Great Dominican, and the Society of JesusThe New Aims of the Missionaries; Florida and Georgia, 1549-1745; The Slave Raiders of Carolina Destroy the Missions of Florida and Georgia; Colonel Moore Destroys Apalatchee; Lower California, 1680-1765; California, 1769-1848; Paraguay, 1680-1765; The Araucanians, 1610-1870; French Failure and Martyrdom in New York and Canada; CHAPTER X ENSLAVEMENT OF INDIANS IN LATIN AMERICA: A RETROSPECT; The Moral Justification of Slavery; Columbus, Imitating Portuguese Practice in Negro Africa, Begins Enslavement of the Indians.