The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears - Brossura

Perdue, Theda; Green, Michael D.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143113674 ISBN 13: 9780143113676

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2008

Riassunto

Documents the 1830s policy shift of the U.S. government through which it discontinued efforts to assimilate Native Americans in favor of forcibly relocating them west of the Mississippi, in an account that traces the decision's specific effect on the Cherokee Nation, U.S.-Indian relations, and contemporary society. Reprint.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

“ With a rich sense of Cherokee culture and history . . . the authors . . . recount a human story, not only tragic but also unbelievably heroic.”—Los Angeles Times

L'autore:

Theda Perdue is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her works include Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. A recipient of several fellowships and grants, including those from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Newberry Library, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Perdue received her MA and PhD from University of Georgia.

Michael Green is a London-based writer who previously taught economics at Warsaw University and was a senior official in the British government. He is the coauthor (with Matthew Bishop) of Philanthrocapitalism.

Colin Calloway is a British American historian. He is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143113674
• ISBN 13: 9780143113676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208
• Redattore: Calloway Colin G.