9781316615829-1316615820-Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South

Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South

ISBN-13: 9781316615829
ISBN-10: 1316615820
Edition: Reprint
Author: Robin Beck
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781316615829
ISBN-10: 1316615820
Edition: Reprint
Author: Robin Beck
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages

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Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South (ISBN-13: 9781316615829 and ISBN-10: 1316615820), written by authors Robin Beck, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Native American (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Native American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.56.

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This book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an "eventful" approach to social change, Robin Beck argues that the collapse of the Mississippian world was fundamentally a transformation of political economy, from one built on maize to one of guns, slaves, and hides. The story takes us from first encounters through the rise of the Indian slave trade and the scourge of disease to the wars that shook the American South in the early 1700s. Yet the book's focus remains on the Catawbas, drawing on their experiences in a violent, unstable landscape to develop a comparative perspective on structural continuity and change.

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