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The Cherokees: A Population History (Indians of the Southeast) - Softcover

Thornton, Russell

 
9780803294103: The Cherokees: A Population History (Indians of the Southeast)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803294107 ISBN 13: 9780803294103
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to In-dian Territory, and by warfare, predating the American Revolution and including the Civil War, also enters into Thornton's calculations. He goes on to measure the resurgence of the Cherokees in the twentieth century, focusing on such population centers as North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Russell Thornton, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492 (1987).

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Verlag
University of Nebraska Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803294107
ISBN 13 
9780803294103
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
239
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