First Americans: A History of Native Peoples, Volume 2 Since 1861 - Softcover

Townsend, Kenneth W.; Nicholas, Mark A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205055877 ISBN 13: 9780205055876

Verlag: Routledge, 2012

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Tells the complete story of Native American history, including the native perspective.

 

First Americans provides a history of Native Americans, from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, that covers the complexity and diversity of their past. The text demonstrates Native Americans’ participation in determining their own future and helps students place Native American history in context with national and international developments.  

 

Present throughout the text is the "native voice," giving American Indians’ perspectives on historical developments. The text also enforces the reality that native people retain a presence in the U.S. today as a growing population with a rich diversity of roles, ideas, and contributions.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth Townsend earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill in 1991, two years after joining the faculty of the Department of History at Coastal Carolina University

in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Townsend now serves as chair of the Department of History. He

is the author of World War II and the American Indian (2000), South Carolina (2008) and varied articles, and he

is revising a book-length manuscript addressing the World War II home front in the Southeastern United States. 

In summer 2006 Townsend embedded with U.S. Army units in Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan and is now

completing a project titled “Shadows of War” that examines the personal imprint of war on soldiers and their

families.

 

Mark A. Nicholas received his PhD from Lehigh University in 2006, and teaches at Florida Atlantic University.

 With Joel W. Martin, he edited Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the

American Religious Landscape (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). He has

several ongoing projects, including a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University. 

Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0205055877
• ISBN 13: 9780205055876
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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