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Author Granberry, Julian.

Title The Americas that might have been [electronic resource] : Native American social systems through time / Julian Granberry.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.

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Description xiii, 204 p. : ill., maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-197) and index.
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 Taino 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Indians -- First contact with Europeans.
Indians -- Transatlantic influences.
Indians -- Colonization.
America -- Discovery and exploration.
America -- Colonization.
Europe -- Colonies -- America.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0817314571 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817351825 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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