books about: post-columbian (nineteenth greenwood)

books about: post-columbian

books:

Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America (The Greenwood Press ...
Alice Nash, Christoph Strobel

Greenwood Press, 2006

When Columbus discovered America in 1492, there were over five hundred indigenous groups living in what is now the United States. Despite the breathtaking diversity and inventiveness of these peoples, the culture, customs, and history of Native Americans are relatively unknown to many students and general readers today. In ten narrative chapters, organized by geographical region, Nash and Strobel examine the real history of Native Americans. How ...

Pre-Columbian Art and the Post-Columbian World: Ancient American Sources of Modern Art
Barbara Braun

HNA Books, 1993

Now in Paperback "A truly marvelous book. Braun welds together fresh insights and impeccable scholarship, and expresses both with clarity and grace . . . while establishing original, now unbreakable connections between the art and architecture of the ancient Americas and the arts of the modern era. I learned something new on every page."-Pete Hamill Until this trailblazing 1993 book, now reissued in paperback, much attention had been ...