Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-409) and index.
Contents
Imagining the other: first encounters -- Babel of tongues: communicating with the Indians -- At the water's edge: trading in the sixteenth century -- The first consumer revolution: the seventeenth century -- Making do: trade in the eighteenth-century Southeast -- The invasion within: the contest of cultures -- Dr. Wheelock's little red school -- The white Indians -- The Spanish incursion -- The rise and fall of the Powhatan empire -- The moral dilemmas of scalping -- The Columbian mosaic -- Native reactions to the invasion of America -- The Indian impact on English colonial culture.
