American Indians: Fourth Edition (The Chicago History of American Civilization) - Softcover

Hagan, William T.; Limerick, Patricia Nelson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226312399 ISBN 13: 9780226312392

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2012

Synopsis

William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this concise account includes more than twenty new maps and illustrations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the most recent research in Indian-white relations. With an introduction by Cobb, and a foreword by eminent historian Patricia Nelson Limerick, this fourth edition marks the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication of American Indians.

About this title

Review:

"The author has reduced the long story--often as tangled as a five-year-old's fishing line--into a brief, clear, and highly interesting book. . . . A remarkable achievement."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"The task is accomplished with ease and skill. The narrative is simple and direct and is relieved by a gentle sarcasm directed at the all too frequent hypocrisy and blindness of the 'civilizing' race, and by a resigned sympathy for the unhappy objects of the white man's policy."
--American Historical Review

"Dr. Hagan's book provides an admirably succinct and intelligible account of a confused and confusing subject, that of the theory and practice of United States Indian Policy."
--Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

"With brevity and care, William T. Hagan brings the story of Indian-white relations to the mainstream of American history. The result bears little resemblance to what most of us learned in history class."
--Reference and Research Book News

About the Author:

William T. Hagan (1918-2011) was professor emeritus of history at the University of Oklahoma and the author of The Sac and Fox Indians, Indian Police and Judges, United States Comanche Relations, and The Indian Rights Association. Daniel M. Cobb is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0226312399
• ISBN 13: 9780226312392
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 249