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HIS 600 - Early American Encounters
Assigned Readings for Modules 5 - 8
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HIS 600 - Early American Encounters
This guide contains links to readings for the course as well as library resources targeted to a greater understanding of the initial contacts between European explorers, colonists, Native Americans, and displaced Africans.
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Assigned Readings for Modules 1 - 4
Assigned Readings for Modules 5 - 8
Assigned Readings for Modules 9 - 11
Citing Your Sources
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Assigned Readings
Module 5
American Environmental History: The Development of a New Historical Field
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From Columbus to Acosta: Science, Geography, and the New World
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Miraculous Plagues: Epidemiology on New England’s Colonial Landscape
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"Heavy Shadows and Black Night": Disease and Depopulation in Colonial Spanish America
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The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492
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Virgin Land and Savage People
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The Ecologically Noble Savage Debate
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Module 6
The Middle Ground Revisited: Introduction
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Creative Misunderstandings and New Understandings
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Cultural Brokers and Intercultural Politics: New York-Iroquois Relations, 1664-1701
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"A Friend to go between Them": The Interpreter as Cultural Broker during Anglo-Iroquois Councils, 1740-70
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The Importance of Mestizos and Mulatos as Bilingual Intermediaries in Sixteenth-Century New Spain
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Sir Walter Ralegh's Indian Interpreters, 1584-1618
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Module 7
Beyond the Great Debates: Gender and Race in Early America
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Reading Margins: Colonial Encounters in Sápmi and Lenapehoking in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Eden's Translations: Women and Temptation in Early America
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"Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder": Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500-1770
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The Female Opossum and the Nature of the New World
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Module 8
To "Doe Some Good upon Their Countrymen": The Paradox of Indian Slavery in Early Anglo-America
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"A Little Flesh We Offer You": The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France
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Slavery, the Fox Wars, and the Limits of Alliance
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Early-American Literature: Reassessing the Black Contribution
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