Resilient Cultures: America's Native Peoples Confront European Colonialization 1500-1800
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Documents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Native Societies of the Americas Before Contact -- The Coming of Humans to the Americas and the Agricultural Revolution -- Sedentary Imperial Societies -- Landholding Patterns and Forms of Production and Distribution -- Empires and Warfare -- Semisedentary Societies -- The Primacy of Community and Lineage -- Nonsedentary Hunters and Gatherers -- The Native Population of the Americas on the Eve of Contact -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Endnotes
