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Indians, Missionaries and Merchants : the Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers.
California's earliest European colonists - Russian merchants and Franciscan missionaries - both depended heavily on Native American labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of history - includi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | California's earliest European colonists - Russian merchants and Franciscan missionaries - both depended heavily on Native American labor to build and maintain their colonies, but they did so in very different ways. This richly detailed book brings together disparate skeins of history - including little-known oral histories, native texts, ethnohistory, and archaeological excavations - to present a vivid new look at how native cultures fared under these two colonial systems. In addition to providing a new window on California's colonial past, Kent Lightfoot's innovative work, incorporating the. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (358 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-318) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520940352 0520940350 1282358782 9781282358782 9786612358784 6612358785 1597346756 9781597346757 |