Image from Coce

The conquest of the New World / Helen Cothran, book editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: At issue in historyPublisher: San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 144 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0737712740
  • 9780737712742
  • 0737712732
  • 9780737712735
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 970.01 22
LOC classification:
  • E101 .C73 2002
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Christopher Columbus -- Columbus was a hero / Samuel Eliot Morison ; Columbus was a pitiable man / Justin Winsor ; Modern attacks on Columbus are unwarranted / Mark Falcoff ; Modern attacks on Columbus are justified / Suzann Shown Harjo -- 2. Conquistadors -- Conquistadors were murderers / Bartolome de las Casas ; Conquistadors' motives were pure / Jean Descola ; Conquistadors fought in self-defense / Bernal Diaz del Castillo ; Conquistadors fought without reason / Miguel Leon-Portilla -- 3. Indians -- White takeover of Indian land : a White's view / Theodore Roosevelt ; White takeover of Indian land : an Indian's view / Chief Joseph ; Indians should be Christianized / Abraham Steiner ; Indians wish to keep their own religion / Charles Alexander Eastman ; Indians should join together in war against the Whites / Tecumseh ; Indians should live in peace with the Whites / Pushmataha.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139) and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Christopher Columbus -- Columbus was a hero / Samuel Eliot Morison ; Columbus was a pitiable man / Justin Winsor ; Modern attacks on Columbus are unwarranted / Mark Falcoff ; Modern attacks on Columbus are justified / Suzann Shown Harjo -- 2. Conquistadors -- Conquistadors were murderers / Bartolome de las Casas ; Conquistadors' motives were pure / Jean Descola ; Conquistadors fought in self-defense / Bernal Diaz del Castillo ; Conquistadors fought without reason / Miguel Leon-Portilla -- 3. Indians -- White takeover of Indian land : a White's view / Theodore Roosevelt ; White takeover of Indian land : an Indian's view / Chief Joseph ; Indians should be Christianized / Abraham Steiner ; Indians wish to keep their own religion / Charles Alexander Eastman ; Indians should join together in war against the Whites / Tecumseh ; Indians should live in peace with the Whites / Pushmataha.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha