The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781469633381)

From the earliest moments of European contact, Native Americans have played a pivotal role in the Atlantic experience, yet they often have been relegated to the margins of the region's historical record. The Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver's sweeping and highly readable survey of history and literature, synthesizes scholarship to place indigenous people of the Americas at the center of our understanding of the Atlantic world. Weaver illuminates their willing and unwilling travels through the region, revealing how they changed the course of world history.

Indigenous Americans, Weaver shows, crossed the Atlantic as royal dignitaries, diplomats, slaves, laborers, soldiers, performers, and tourists. And they carried resources and knowledge that shaped world civilization--from chocolate, tobacco, and potatoes to terrace farming and suspension bridges. Weaver makes clear that indigenous travelers were cosmopolitan agents of international change whose engagement with other societies gave them the tools to advocate for their own sovereignty even as it was challenged by colonialism.

Author: Jace Weaver
ISBN-10: 1469633388
ISBN-13: 9781469633381
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2017
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.25w x 0.08d