ADAIR'S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. Edited Under The Auspices Of The National Society Of The Colonial Dames Of America, In Tennessee By Samuel Cole Williams, LL.D.

Adair, James & Samuel Cole Williams (editor)

Verlag: NY. no date of publication listed (1986). Promontory Press reprint of the 1930 edition

Beschreibung

red full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. couple of small faint edge spots. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fair cond. large tear on spine, soiled on rear, wrinkles, chippped, tiny tears, not price clipped. nice clean vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. reprint of the 1930 edition. b&w endpaper maps. xxxviii+508p. bibliographic footnotes throughout. index. american history. american indian history. lost tribes of israel. ~ HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS PARTICULARLY THOSE NATIONS ADJOINING TO THE MISSISSIPPI, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA. SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR ORIGIN, LANGUAGE, MANNERS, RELIGIOUS AND CIVIL CUSTOMS, LAWS, FORM OF GOVERNMENT, PUNISHMENTS, CONDUCT IN WAR AND DOMESTIC LIFE, THEIR HABITS, DIET, AGRICULTURE MANUFACTURES, DISEASES AND METHOD OF CURE, AND OTHER PARTICULARS, SUFFICIENT TO RENDER IT A COMPLETE INDIAN SYSTEM. WITH OBSERVATIONS ON FORMER HISTORIANS, THF CONDUCT OF OUR COLONY GOVERNORS, SUPERINTENDENTS, MISSIONARIES &C ALSO AN APPENDIX CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF THE FLORIDAS AND THE MISSISSIPPI LANDS, WITH THEIR PRODUCTIONS; THE BENEFITS OF COLONIZING GEORGIANA AND CIVILIZING THE INDIANS; AND THE WAY T0 MAKE ALL THE COLONIES MORE VALUABLE TO THE MOTHER COUNTRY. WITH A NEW MAP OF THE COUNTRY REFRRRED TO IN THE HISTORY. BY JAMES ADAIR, ESQUIRE. TRADER WITH THE INDIANS, AND RESIDENT IN THEIR COUNTRY FOR FORTY YEARS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR EDWARD AND CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY. MDCCLXXV [1775] James Adair set out to prove his theory that the Indians were lineal descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel. This descent,'' Adair writes, "I shall endeavor to prove from their religious rites. civil and martial customs,their marriages, funeral ceremonies, manners, language, traditions and a variety of particulars." Devoting the first half of his book to proving this theory, he provides no less than twenty~three "arguments" that will astonish and fascinate the reader.

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• Titel: ADAIR'S HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. Edited Under The Auspices Of The National Society Of The Colonial Dames Of America, In Tennessee By Samuel Cole Williams, LL.D.
• Verlag: NY. no date of publication listed (1986). Promontory Press reprint of the 1930 edition
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket Included
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