The Americas That Might Have Been : Native American Social Systems through Time /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Granberry, Julian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians > Colonization.
Indians > Transatlantic influences.
Indians > First contact with Europeans.
Europe > Colonies > America.
America > Colonization.
America > Discovery and exploration.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the whys and wherefores
  • Men out of Asia
  • America 1492
  • Native philosophies of life
  • Unitary norms : the Asian perspective
  • The dualistic view : the European norm
  • The trinary compromise : the Near Eastern norm
  • The empire of Tawantinsuyu
  • The empire of the Mexica
  • The Maya kingdoms
  • The Mississippian cities and towns
  • The Pueblo towns
  • The Taíno chiefdoms
  • Hemispheric-internal relationships in the twenty-first century : the inner design
  • Commerce and discovery of the old world
  • International alliances and interaction in the twenty-first century : the outer scheme
  • Epilogue: the first Baktun.

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