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The red Atlantic : American indigenes and the making of the modern world, 1000-1927 /

Indigenous Americans, Weaver shows, crossed the Atlantic as royal dignitaries, diplomats, slaves, laborers, soldiers, performers, and tourists. And they carried resources and knowledge that shaped world civilization--from chocolate, tobacco, and potatoes to terrace farming and suspension bridges. We...

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Main Authors: Weaver, Jace, 1957
Published: The University of North Carolina Press,
Publisher Address: Chapel Hill :
Publication Dates: [2017]
©2014
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Atlantic States > History
Indians of North America > First contact with Europeans > Atlantic States
Indians of North America > Atlantic States > Social life and customs
American literature > Indian authors
Indians in literature
Atlantic States > Discovery and exploration
Summary: Indigenous Americans, Weaver shows, crossed the Atlantic as royal dignitaries, diplomats, slaves, laborers, soldiers, performers, and tourists. And they carried resources and knowledge that shaped world civilization--from chocolate, tobacco, and potatoes to terrace farming and suspension bridges. Weaver makes clear that indigenous travelers were cosmopolitan agents of international change whose engagement with other societies gave them the tools to advocate for their own sovereignty even as it was challenged by colonialism.
Carrier Form: xiv, 340 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781469633381 (paperback) :
1469633388 (paperback)
9781469614380 (cloth : alkaline paper)
1469614383 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9781469614397 (ebook)
1469614391 (ebook)
Index Number: E78
CLC: K712.8
Call Number: K712.8/W363
Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Beneath the fall and beyond: navigating the red Atlantic -- For he looks upon you as foolish children: captives, slaves, and prisoners of the red Atlantic -- In the service of others: soldiers and sailors of the red Atlantic -- Red diplomats: statecraft and cosmopolitanism across the red Atlantic -- A gazing stocke, yea even a laughing stocke: celebrity Indians and display across the red Atlantic -- Fireside travelers, armchair adventurers, and apocryphal voyages: the literature of the red Atlantic -- The closing of the red Atlantic: a conclusion.

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