New Worlds for All : Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

by Calloway, Colin G.

• ISBN13: 9780801854484
• ISBN10: 0801854482
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

"Calloway employs lucid prose and captivating examples to remind us that neither Indians nor Colonists were a monolithic group... The result is a more nuanced appreciation for the complexity of cultural relationships in Colonial America... He surveys this complex story with imagination and insight and provides an essential starting point for all those interested in the interaction of Europeans and Indians in early American life." -- David R. Shi, Christian Science Monitor Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact Early America already existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the existing land and culture. In New Worlds for All, Colin Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America. The journey toward this hybrid society kept Europeans' and Indians' lives tightly entwined: living, working, worshiping, traveling, and trading together--as well as fearing, avoiding, despising, and killing one another. In the West, settlers lived in Indian towns, eating Indian food. In Mohawk Valley, New York, Europeans tattooed their faces; Indians drank tea. And, a unique American identity emerged. "I cannot think of another work that sets out to accomplish what Colin Calloway has achieved. New Worlds for All stands poised to become the most successful synthesis of North American ethnohistory from contact to the early national period." -- Gregory E. Dowd, University of Notre Dame "Colin Calloway's grand synthesis of the experience of Indians and other Americans before 1800 is exceptional in its breadth of vision. Taking as his canvas the entire North American continent--examining everything from war and disease to trade and sex, from clothes and houses to foods and cures--he nonetheless never loses sight of the individual, human story, the vivid encounter or striking incident that brings the past to life." -- James H. Merrell, Vassar College

Table of Contents

Maps	xi	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii	(4)
Timeline	xvii
Introduction: The Kaleidoscope of Early America	1	(7)
One. Imagining and Creating a New World	8	(16)
Two. Healing and Disease	24	(18)
Three. The Stuff of Life	42	(26)
Four. A World of Dreams and Bibles	68	(24)
Five. New World Warfare and a New World of War	92	(23)
Six. New World Diplomacy and New World Foreign Policies	115	(19)
Seven. New Nomads and True Nomads	134	(18)
Eight. Crossing and Merging Frontiers	152	(26)
Nine. New Peoples and New Societies	178	(17)
Conclusion: New Americans and First Americans	195	(4)
Bibliographical Essay	199	(20)
Index	219