登入
選單
返回
Google圖書搜尋
America in 1492
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
其他書名
The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 1991
主題
History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
History / North America
ISBN
0679743375
9780679743378
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xtuhTFUf8OsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs. This brilliantly detailed and documented volume brings together essays by fifteen leading scholars field to present a comprehensive and richly evocative portrait of Native American life on the eve of Columbus's first landfall.
Developed at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian and edited by award-winning author Alvin M. Josehpy, Jr., America in 1492 is an invaluable work that combines the insights of historians, anthropologists, and students of art, religion, and folklore. Its dozens of illustrations, drawn from largely from the rare books and manuscripts housed at the Newberry Library, open a window on worlds flourished in the Americas five hundred years ago.