Peter Rowley-Conwy
Autore di The First Humans: Human Origins and History to 10,000 B.C.
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Opere di Peter Rowley-Conwy
New World and Pacific Civilizations: Cultures of America, Asia, and the Pacific (1994) — A cura di; A cura di — 75 copie
Bra böckers encyklopedi om människans historia. 3, Från sten till brons : jägare-samlare och bönder i gamla… (1994) 7 copie
From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and… (2007) 6 copie
Bra böckers encyklopedi om människans historia. 2, Bortom Afrika : de första människorna i Stilla havet och Nya… (1993) 5 copie
Bra böckers encyklopedi om människans historia. 5, Civilisationens vaggor : tidiga högkulturer i… (1994) 5 copie
Bra böckers encyklopedi om människans historia. 9, Kvarlevande traditioner : traditionella kulturer i Asien,… (1996) 5 copie
Bra böckers encyklopedi om människans historia. 7, Nya världens högkulturer : förcolumbiska… (1995) 4 copie
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Nagy civilizaciok : osi tarsadalmak es kulturak : az emberiseg kepes tortenete (2005) — alcune edizioni — 1 copia
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Compare to modern historians, in the 1970s, Axtell, Neal Salisbury, Francis Jennings, dissatisfied with the view of either primitive cultures or "balanced with Nature".
“Indians were seen as trivial, ineffectual patsies,” Salisbury, a historian at Smith College, says of the history actual taught to susceptible children in the United States.
But does a whole continent of patsies make sense, really?
By the 1990s, we have witnessed a tsunami of inquiry into the interactions between natives and newcomers in the era when they faced each other as relative equals. “No other field in American history has grown as fast,” according to Joyce Chaplin, a Harvard historian, in 2003. This 1994 volume is part of that tsunami.
It is true that Indian societies collapsed in the "Colonial Period". This had everything to do with the natives themselves, and with geography, and pathology. It was certainly to religiously ordained or technologically determined.
I like how Salisbury put it: “When you look at the historical record, it’s clear that Indians were trying to control their own destinies.” Even though neither the Indians nor the Colonials and Kings predicted the consequences.… (altro)