Alleged Evils of Western Materialism
Annihilation of Incan Culture
Beheading Inca Emperors
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Chinese Emperor and King George III
Chinese Technical Inventions
Cortes
Criticisms of Christianity
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European Racial Prejudice
Fernando
Freed Slave
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Herman
Implications of Columbus's Discovery of the New World
Mass Deaths from European Diseases
Missionary Education
Opium War
Pizarro
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Theological Denunciations
Product details
- ISBN 9780313351310
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A collection comprising a wide variety of accounts of native peoples describing their initial encounters with European explorers, conquerors, and settlers.
This extraordinary volume gathers together an astonishing array of voices of those so often overlooked by history. First Encounters: Native Voices on the Coming of the Europeans reaches back to add important overlooked viewpoints to our understanding of history, gathering together accounts describing the initial experiences of indigenous peoples around the world with European explorers, missionaries, traders, soldiers, and settlers. It is the first such volume with a truly global perspective.
First Encounters brings together 42 authentic, first-person accounts, organized geographically in sections on Africa, North America, South America, greater Australia, and Asia. Selections, each with editor's notes, provide vivid, detailed accounts of the culture clashes that defined an era. From the Opium Wars to the Indian Wars, from the Aztecs who thought the white intruders were gods to the Japanese who thought them barbarians, readers will encounter a stunning array of voices from the other side of history.
Howard B. Leavitt, PhD, is a retired academic with a doctorate from Columbia University.
