In this book Colin Calloway sums up another cycle in the historiography of the American Indian.The book is arranged topically, and is really more a series of essays than a single narrative.Calloway is even-handed in hisapproach, avoiding the demonization of both settlers and Indians that havebeen features of other works on the same topic.Calloway tries to cutthrough the mythology that has encrusted much of American Indian historyand get at the way things really were--cultural give and take,misunderstandings, and accomodations.Overall, an excellent book and anecessary antidote to wrong-headed notions about cultural interactions inearly America.Click Here to see more reviews about: New Worlds for All: Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment) (Paperback)
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