The children of Aataentsic : a history of the Huron People to 1660
1987
Book
"'The Children of Aataentsic' revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behavior and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the 'heroic age' of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contempoarary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada."--page [4] of cover.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9780773506275
- 9780773506268
- 0773506276
- 0773506268
Edition: First paperback edition.
Description: xxxvii, 913 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Notes:
- "Reprinted with a new preface 1987"--T.p. verso
- Reprint. Originally published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976
- Includes index
- Bibliography: pages 857-884.
Contents:
- Illustrations
- Lists of maps
- Preface to the Carleton Library series reprinting
- Preface to the 1987 reprinting
- Preface to the First edition
- Introduction
- The Huron and their neighbours
- The birth of the Huron
- Alien shadows
- Forging an alliance
- The quiet years
- The interregnum and the new alliance
- The deadly harvest
- The storm
- The storm within
- The end of the Confederacy
- Betrayal and salvation
- Conclusions
- Notes Chapter 7-13
- References
- Index.
LCCN: 91000001
Control Number: 53155
Publisher: Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1987]Series:
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