{"product_id":"the-americas-that-might-have-julian-granberry-9780817351823","title":"The Americas That Might Have Been: Native American Social Systems Through Time","description":"\u003cb\u003eImagines the development of the Western Hemisphere without European contact and colonization\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This work answers the hypothetical question: What would the Americas be like today--politically, economically, culturally--if Columbus and the Europeans had never found them, and how would American peoples interact with the world's other societies? It assumes that Columbus did not embark from Spain in 1492 and that no Europeans found or settled the New World afterward, leaving the peoples of the two American continents free to follow the natural course of their Native lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Americas That Might Have Been\u003c\/i\u003e is a professional but layman-accessible, fact-based, nonfiction account of the major Native American political states that were thriving in the New World in 1492. Granberry considers a contemporary New World in which the glories of Aztec Mexico, Maya Middle America, and Inca Peru survived intact. He imagines the roles that the Iroquois Confederacy of the American Northeast, the powerful city-states along the Mississippi River in the Midwest and Southeast, the Navajo Nation and the Pueblo culture of the Southwest, the Eskimo Nation in the Far North, and the Taino\/Arawak chiefdoms of the Caribbean would play in American and world politics in the 21st Century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following a critical examination of the data using empirical archaeology, linguistics, and ethnohistory, Granberry presents a reasoned and compelling discussion of native cultures and the paths they would have logically taken over the past five centuries. He reveals the spectacular futures these brilliant pre-Columbian societies might have had, if not for one epochal meeting that set off a chain of events so overwhelming to them that the course of human history was forever changed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julian Granberry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817351825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817351823\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2005 pg. 85","brand":"Julian Granberry","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45980781838591,"sku":"9780817351823","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fb36ea81-761b-42bf-b3f3-1ff39ce12383.jpg?v=1722416725","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-americas-that-might-have-julian-granberry-9780817351823","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}