Theda Perdue
Autore di The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents
Sull'Autore
Theda Perdue is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Opere di Theda Perdue
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The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist (1915) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 48 copie
The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863-1866 (1925) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 28 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Organizzazioni
- Southern Historical Association (president | 2011)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 20
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 1,133
- Popolarità
- #22,652
- Voto
- 3.5
- Recensioni
- 13
- ISBN
- 55
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 1
This is a serviceable if dry survey of the history of Native Americans in the United States. And yes, despite the title citing North America, anything that happened in Mexico and Canada is basically omitted unless it occurred within 100 miles of the present day U.S. border. I did learn stuff and now have a better sense of time and place than I previously had, but despite the book being only 140 pages, it took me seven days to listlessly work my way through it.
I thought the most interesting part was the last sentence: "At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Indian people speak for themselves." I found it super ironic since this book was written by a married white couple. Hrm.… (altro)