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Author:

Weatherford, J. McIver.

Title:

Indian givers : how the Indians of the Americas transformed the world / Jack Weatherford.

Edition:

1st Ballantine Books ed.

Publisher:

Fawcett Columbine,

Copyright Date:

1990, c1988

Description:

x, 272 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Civilization--Indian influences.
Civilization, Modern--History.
Indians of North America--Colonization.
Indianen.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: 1st ed. New York, N.Y. : Crown Publishers, 1988. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-266).

Contents:

Index. 14. Silver and money capitalism -- 2. Piracy, slavery, and the birth of corporations -- 3. The American Indian path to industrialization -- 4. The food revolution -- 5. Indian agricultural technology -- 6. The culinary revolution -- 7. Liberty, anarchism, and the noble savage -- 8. The founding Indian fathers -- 9. Red sticks and revolution -- 10. The Indian healer -- 11. The drug connection -- 12. Architecture and urban planning -- 13. The pathfinders -- 14. When will America be discovered? -- References -- Index.

ISBN:

9780449904961
0449904962

LCCN:

89091486

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