AXTELL, James

After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.

New York & Oxford. Oxford University Press. 1988. 8vo, 300p., illustrations, index, blue cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket, as new (gar). Item #38935

~ In this collection, James Axtell explorers the historical legacy of the "Columbian exchange" in colonial North America. Arguing that moral judgments have a legitimate place in the writing of history, he scrutinizes the actions of various European invaders - missionaries, traders, soldiers, and ordinary settlers - in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. From the dual perspective of ethnohistory, Axtell also probes the Indian responses to those strangers from antoher world.

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