Blood and Land: The Story of Native North America
Autor J. C. H. Kingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 aug 2017
'An account sorely needed ... a kaleidoscopic view of Native American history, refreshing and rollicking, and not unlike its fractured reality'Standpoint
Blood and Landis a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North Americans, and why they matter today. It is about why no understanding of the wider world is possible without comprehending the original inhabitants of the United States and Canada: Native Americans, First Nations and Arctic peoples.
This highly personal book, based on years of travel and first-hand research in North America, introduces a deeply complex story, of myriad identities and determined ethnicities - from the desert Southwest to the high Arctic, from first contact between Europeans and Native Americans to the challenges of Native leadership today. Instead of writing a chronological history, King confronts the reader with the paradoxes, diversity and successes of Native North Americans. Their astonishing ingenuity and supple intelligence enabled, after centuries of suffering both violence and dispossession, a striking level of recovery, optimism and autonomy in the twenty-first century.
Beautifully illustrated and filled with arresting and surprising stories,Blood and Landlooks well beyond the 'feathers-and-failure' narratives beloved by historians to show us Native North America as it was and is.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141976303
ISBN-10: 0141976306
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141976306
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
J.C.H.
Kingis
currently
the
von
Hügel
Fellow
at
the
Museum
of
Archaeology
and
Anthropology
at
the
University
of
Cambridge.
He
worked
at
the
British
Museum
for
nearly
forty
years.
Latterly
he
was
the
Keeper
of
Anthropology
in
what
is
now
the
Department
of
Africa,
Oceania
and
the
Americas.
He
has
travelled
extensively
in
North
America,
from
the
California
Missions
to
Nunavut,
and
the
Everglades
to
Point
Barrow,
working
with
many
different
Native
people
to
understand
cultures
and
to
explain
difficult
histories
for
a
general
public.
Recenzii
Resisting
the
tendency
toward
generalisation
that
is
the
inherent
danger
of
thematic
survey,
King
emphasises
singularity,
contrast
and
diversification
...
the
early
sections
of
the
chapter
on
language
and
literature
contain
the
most
lucid
and
succinct
discussion
of
the
nature,
origin
and
diversification
of
Native
American
languages
-
a
subject
central
to
the
understanding
of
Native
American
history
-
that
I
have
ever
read
...
[an]
excellent
panoramic
survey
Blood and Landis an account - at least from my American perspective - sorely needed...general histories of Native America are difficult to write and King does a superlative job
Blood and Landis to be commended for its ambition. The subjects covered are fascinating ... an eminently readable work
A panoramic portrait ...a delight for the browsers and sifters among us who may be more engaged by the stories of early 20th century Kikapoo travelling snake-oil salesmen than by the minutiae of constitutional haggling and treaty-making
King sees through clear and intelligent eyes, with a scholarship that is deep, wide, and liberated from cliché or stereotype, the vast complexities and nuances that motivate and shape not only the past but, even more important, the present and future of the first citizens of North America.
Blood and Landis an account - at least from my American perspective - sorely needed...general histories of Native America are difficult to write and King does a superlative job
Blood and Landis to be commended for its ambition. The subjects covered are fascinating ... an eminently readable work
A panoramic portrait ...a delight for the browsers and sifters among us who may be more engaged by the stories of early 20th century Kikapoo travelling snake-oil salesmen than by the minutiae of constitutional haggling and treaty-making
King sees through clear and intelligent eyes, with a scholarship that is deep, wide, and liberated from cliché or stereotype, the vast complexities and nuances that motivate and shape not only the past but, even more important, the present and future of the first citizens of North America.