Alvin M. Josephy (1915–2005)
Autore di 500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American Indians
Sull'Autore
Alvin Josephy, Jr., (b. 1915) is best known for his many books on Native Americans and the American West
Fonte dell'immagine: Jerry Bauer
Opere di Alvin M. Josephy
The Long and the Short and the Tall: Marines in Combat on Guam and Iwo Jima (Classics of War) (1979) 26 copie
Black Hills, White Sky: Photographs from the collection of the Arvada Center Foundation (1978) 7 copie
The American Heritage Book of Indians / The American Heritage History of The Great West (2 volume set). (1961) — A cura di — 6 copie
The Adventure of Man's Flight 3 copie
The U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of an American Indian Nation (1990) — Collaboratore — 65 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- JOSEPHY, Alvin M., Jr.
- Data di nascita
- 1915-05-08
- Data di morte
- 2005-10-16
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Woodmere, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Joseph, Oregon, USA
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA - Istruzione
- Harvard University
- Attività lavorative
- historian
foreign correspondent
magazine editor - Organizzazioni
- Time Magazine (Associate editor)
American Heritage (Editor, 1976-1978) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Saddleman Award (1966)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 58
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 3,500
- Popolarità
- #7,267
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 22
- ISBN
- 87
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
All of these nations were mentioned in the[ Journals of Lewis and Clark]. But each nation had a different perspective on the Journey of Discovery.
First of all, most of them had seen and traded with French, Spanish, Scottish, English and even Russian white men before Lewis and Clark. No matter what the L&C Journals said, they did not think of white men as gods. They did not feel that this group of whites were of greater import than others they had met. They did, however, almost universally perceive them as rude and had no regard for a Great White Father meeting his children and owning the land that they had lived in and on for centuries.
It is only in retrospect that the Native Americans learned how vastly and quickly their lives would be changed. In as little as thirty years for the nations along the Oregon coast or still within one generation (seventy years) for some of the plains people, wars were fought, treaties broken and survivors pushed onto reservations.
Several of the writers’ essays were about the shabby ways they had been treated and the ongoing negative consequences of the white colonization. Other writers comment on their oral traditions of the coming of Lewis and Clark, especially compared to the official writings of the white men of the expedition.
This is an intriguing essay collection of an event seen by most Americans as one of the highpoints of US Western exploration and settlement. However, like all history it’s an event told by the conquerors, with little regard given to the Native side, until this book. As in all anthologies, I enjoyed some essays more than others. I would recommend it to anyone interested in American frontier history.… (altro)