Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Call Numbers
G 2015/2629
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xix, 456 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations: The making of the Mandan people ; Contacts: Villages and newcomers ; Earthwork: The substance of daily life ; Connections: Sustained European contact begins -- Inventions and reinventions. Customs: The spirits of daily life ; Upheavals: Eighteenth-cent...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
Edition
First Edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2014.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis...
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Encounters at the heart of the world : a history of the mandan people / Elizabeth A. Fenn.
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Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2015/2629
Record Identifier
74VK7kLBZwlg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK7kLBZwlg
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ISBN
0809042398 (hardback)
9780809042395 (hardback)
DDC
305.897522
MMS ID
991022905139702626
