Interpreting a Continent

Interpreting a Continent
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9780742564640
ISBN-13 : 0742564649
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Book Synopsis Interpreting a Continent by : Kathleen DuVal

Download or read book Interpreting a Continent written by Kathleen DuVal and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader provides students with key documents from colonial American history, including new English translations of non-English documents. The documents in this collection take the reader beyond the traditional story of the English colonies. Readers explore the Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian, German, and even Icelandic colonial efforts throughout North America, including California, New Mexico, Texas, the Great Plains, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New England. Throughout, the collection provides not only the perspectives of Europeans but also of Native Americans and Africans. By looking beyond traditional sources, students see the power and diversity of Native Americans and learn that European domination of the continent was not inevitable. They see different forms of slavery and ways that slaves dealt with their captivity. By considering multiple perspectives, students learn that colonial history was largely the attempts of various peoples to understand strangers and adapt them to their own will.


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