First encounters : native voices on the coming of the Europeans. Howard B. Leavitt, editor

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Title:
First encounters : native voices on the coming of the Europeans. Howard B. Leavitt, editor
Author: Leavitt, Howard B
Subjects: First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners -- Sources;
Colonies -- History -- Sources;
Acculturation -- Sources -- History;
Indigenous peoples -- Sources -- History;
Indigenous peoples -- Biography;
Europeans -- Sources -- History;
Colonists -- Sources -- History;
Conquerors -- Sources -- History;
Autochtones -- Premiers contacts avec les Occidentaux -- Sources;
Colonies -- Histoire -- Sources;
Acculturation -- Sources -- Histoire;
Autochtones -- Sources -- Histoire;
Autochtones -- Biographies;
Européens -- Sources -- Histoire;
Colons -- Sources -- Histoire;
Conquérants -- Sources -- Histoire
Description: Bibliogr. p. 259-264. Index
First encounters in Africa. I was a savage / Prince Modupe (Guinea) ; Back to my village / Mongo Beti (Cameroon) ; Beatings at the Mission School / Cameron Duodu (Ghana) ; Confrontations / Chief Mojimba and H.M. Stanley (Congo) ; Rubber forest atrocities, part I / Cong refugees (Congo) ; Rubber forest atrocities, part II / Five Congolese girls (Congo) ; I survived the middle passage / Olaudah Equiano (Nigeria) ; The white man arrives / Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) ; The loss of identity / Chief Matungi (Congo) ; The coming of the pink cheeks / Chief Kabongo (Kenya) ; The gentlemen of the jungle / Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya) ; Coming home / William Conton (Gambia) ; Clash between old and new / Chief Awolowo (Nigeria) ; The school inspector / Kofi Awoonor (Ghana) ; The return of the soldier / Francis Obika (Nigeria) ; Coming of the airplane / Edward Atiyah (Sudan)
First encounters in North America. Arrival of the Dutch on Manhattan / Indian chiefs (New York) ; Ridiculing the French / Micmac Indian spokesman (Canada) ; The prophecy / Basil H. Johnston (Canada) ; Janitin is named Jesus / Janitin (California) ; Address in Washington, D.C. / Chief Joseph (Oregon) ; The invisible killer / George Bent (U.S. Midwest) ; Their wondrous works and ways / Charles Eastman (Minnesota) ; The arrival of Bibles in northwest Alaska / Blanche J. Criss (Alaska) ; Literary disempowerment / Jeannette Armstrong (Canada) ; The conquistadors arrive / Aztec witnesses (Mexico) First encounters in South America. Execution of an Incan emperor / Garcilaso de la Vega (Peru) ; Not Gods but conquerers / Titu Cusi Yupanki (Peru) ; The beheading of Emperor Amaru / unnamed Inca (Peru) ; The conquest of the Incas : postscript / Waman Puma (Peru)
First encounters in greater Australia. Growing up in New Guinea / Albert Kiki (Papua New Guinea) ; First contacts / Papuan highlanders (Papua New Guinea) First encounters in Asia. Scornful letter to King George III / Chinese Emperor Qian Long (China) ; Denunciation of the British / Canton citizens (China) ; Beware of western barbarians / Wei Yuan (China) ; The evil of western materialism / Abu Taleb (India) ; Hinduism is not inferior to Christianity / Rammohun Roy (India) ; Japanese are superior, Dutch are inferior / Hiratu Atsutane (Japan) ; War is preferable to peace / Tokugawa Nariaki (Japan) ; Criticisms of Catholicism / Yi Ik (Korea) ; The weakness of Catholicism / An Chongbok (Korea) ; China is the center of the universe / Yi Hangro (Korea)
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, cop. 2010
Creation Date: cop. 2010
Format: 1 vol. (XXI-266 p.) : ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 26 cm
Language: English

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