Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in American history. The collection of essays and documents in MAJOR PROBLEMS IN NORTH AMERICAN BORDERLANDS surveys the North American past from the point of view of its borderlands. The essays and documents discuss people and events likely to be familiar to students, such as thefounding of early European colonies, U.S. independence, the War of 1812, the U.S.-Mexican War, and Prohibition, but less widely-known events and actors--expanding native peoples, the Bourbon reforms of the Spanish Empire, fleeing slaves and servants, border surveyors, the Mexican Revolution, and key U.S. immigration legislation--also take center stage. While this volume is clearly a work of U.S. history, it is also Canadian and Mexican and native history with an overriding theme that we must take into account the meetings of different peoples and nations if we are to understand our past and present. This text presents a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, anddraw their own conclusions. Each chapter includes introductions, source notes, and suggested readings. INDICE: 1. WHAT IS BORDERLANDS HISTORY? Essays. Michiel Baud and Willem Van Schendel, A Comparative Approach to Borderlands. Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron, From Borderlands to Borders. Andrew Graybill and Benjamin Johnson, Telling North American Border Histories. 2. EARLY BORDERLANDS: THE SOUTHWEST. Documents. 1. Ginés de Herrera Horta Testifies on Spanish Treatment of Pueblo Indians, 1601. 2. Pedro Naranjo (Keresan Pueblo) Explains the Pueblo Revolt, 1681. 3. Bishop Benito Crespo Is Confounded by New Mexico, 1730. 4. Father FranciscoCasanas de Jesús Maria on How to Win the Allegiance of the Caddo Indians, 1691. 5. Philbert Ory Urges Louisiana to Open Trade with Spaniards in Natchitoches, 1730. 6. Captain Pierre Marie Francois de Pagès Reports on Texas, 1767. Essays. Debra S. MacDonald, Indians and Africans Collaborate in Colonial New Mexico. Juliana Barr, Captivity, Gender, and Social Control in the Texas-LouisianaBorderlands. 3. MIDDLE GROUNDS, BORDERLANDS, AND FRONTIERS. Documents. 1. John Smith on the Powhatan Confederacy, 1624. 2. Chief Powhatan Addresses John Smith, 1609. 3. Father Jean de Brébeuf Instructs Jesuit Missionaries, 1637. 4. Mary Jemison Looks Back on Her Capture by and Life Among Indians, 1824. 5. The South Carolina Government Passes an Act for the Capture of Runaway Slaves, 1700. 6. William Stephens Assesses the Prospects of Slavery in Georgia, 1742. 7. Pierre LeMoyne d'Iberville Addresses Chickasaw and Choctaw Leaders, 1702. 8. Governor Etienne de Périer Considers the Use of Black Slave Troops against Indians, 1730. 9. Governor Etienne de Périer Appraises French-English-Chickasaw Relations, 1730. Essays. James H. Merrell, Indian-English Frontiers of Cooperation and Conquest. Kathleen Duval, French Louisiana in the Native Ground. 4. BORDERLANDS, CULTURAL EXCHANGES, AND NEW NATIVE SOCIETIES. Documents. 1. Maneo, All-Father Creator, Warns the Cheyennes about Life with Horses. 2. Saukamappee (Cree) Recalls the Arrival of Horses, Guns, and Smallpox to the Northern Plains, 1787. 3. Marqués de Rubí Recommends the Extermination of the Apaches, 1768.4. Charles McKenzie Describes the Horse and Gun Trade on the Northern Plains,1805. 5. Rudolph Friedrich Kurz on Gifts, Intermarriage, and the Fur Trade. 6. Francis Chardon Records Relations between Fur Traders and Native Women and aSmallpox Epidemic in the Upper Missouri River, 1836-1839. Essays. Sylvia Van Kirk, Intermarriage, Borderlands, and Power. Pekka Hämäläinen, Ecological Change and Indigenous Imperialism in the Southwest Borderlands. 5. BORDERLANDS IN CHANGE: THE VIEW FROM ABOVE. Documents. 1. Theodore de Croix Compares California to Texas, Coahuila, and New Mexico, 1781. 2. Governor Alejandro O'Reilly Evaluates Lousiana's Position in Spain's Colonial Economy, 1769. 3. Bernardo de Gálvez Outlines How to Achieve "Peace by Deceit," 1786. 4. Pontiac Urges Ottawas, Potawatomis, and Hurons to Rise Up Against the English, 1763. 5. Governor William Tryon Assesses the Potential of North Carolina Backcountry, 1765. 6. George Washington Denounces the Royal Proclamation Line, 1767. Essays. François Furstenberg, Anglo-America and Its Borderlands. David J. Weber, New Spain and Its Borderlands. 6. BORDERLANDS IN CHANGE: THE VIEW FROM BELOW. Documents. 1. Athanese Mézières Courts and Coerces Wichita Chiefs, 1770. 2. John Sibley and a Comanche Chief Try to Impress One Another, 1807. 3. Fernandode la Concha Laments the Corrupting Influence of Indians in the New Mexico Borderlands, 1794. 4. Pedro Bautista Pino Assesses the Condition of New Mexico, 1812. 5. Joseph Holt Ingraham Observes Indians and Slaves in Natchez, 1835. 6.The Dohasan Calendar, 1832-1892. 7. The First Census of Los Angeles, 1781. Essays. Daniel H. Usner, Jr., The Frontier Exchange Economy of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Steven W. Hackel, Surviving Mission Life in Alta California 7. THE MEXICAN NORTH. Documents. 1. José María Sánchez Criticizes Tejanos and Anglo-American Immigrants in Texas, 1828. 2. Tejano Leaders Give Their Opinion of Anglo-American Immigrants, 1832. 3. Donaciano Vigil Grieves the Changing Relationships among New Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, 1846. 4. Albino Chacón Describes Navajo Raiding and Mounting Discontent in New Mexico, 1837. 5. New Mexico's Chimayó Rebels Denounce Mexico City's Plan for National Reform, 1837. 6. Manuel Armijo Reports on the Suppression of the Chimayó Rebellion, 1837.7. Juan Bandini Envisions an International Future for California, 1830. Essays. Andres Reséndez, Markets, Persuasion, and Identity in the Southwest Borderlands. Albert L. Hurtado, Sex, Marriage, and Power in Mexican California. 8. ANGLO-AMERICAN TAKEOVER OF THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLANDS. Documents. 1. Texan RebelsDeclare Independence, 1836. 2. Stephen Austin's Map of Empresario Land Grantsin Texas, 1835. 3. Rufus Sage Condemns the Inhabitants of New Mexico, 1846. 4. Thomas Catesby Jones Announces United States Takeover of California, 1842. 5. Abraham Lincoln Condemns the War with Mexico, 1848. 6. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848. 7 Antonio María Pico and Others Criticize California's Land Policy, 1859. Essays. Gregg Cantrell, How Stephen F. Austin Became a Rebel. Brian DeLay, How Indians Shaped the Era of U.S.-Mexican War. 9. NEGOTIATING NATIONAL BORDERS. Documents. 1. Escaped Slave Describes Appeal of Canada, 1847. 2.Frederick Law Olmsted on Slaves Escaping to Mexico, 1857. 3. Mexican Government Complains of Laborers Flight to the United States, 1873. 4. U.S. GovernmentSeeks Release from Treaty Obligation to Control Indian Raids into Mexico, 1851. 5. Sitting Bull Crosses into Canada to Elude U.S. Authorities, 1877. 6. General Crook Describes Difficulty of Capturing Geronimo, 1883. 7 Juan Cortina Condemns Anglo-Americans for Land Theft, 1859. 8 Declaration of the Peo
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- Editorial: Wadsworth
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- Fecha Publicación: 26/07/2011
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