James Axtell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3589339 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Axtell |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Axtell |
| FIRMA | AXTELL J |
| AFILIACIONES | James Axtell, Kenan Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary, chaired the American Historical Association's Columbus Quincentenary Committee. |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 181 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Ethnohistory of Early America
A historian of the role of women must contend with the dearth of data on such fundamentals as the number of female migrants to the colony, or what proportion of the overall population was composed of females. The shortage of white women in the colony placed a premium on the eligible widow. Some white women dodged the responsibility, and were content to delegate the administration of estates or inherited properties to sons or more distant relative…
The European and the Indian
Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's account of the doomed Narvaez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through present-day west…
Babel of Tongues
Beleaguered Academics and Pleasured Nostalgia
The Indians' New South
The Indians' New South
The Indian's New South
Journal Article The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast. By James Axtell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xvi, 102 pp. Cloth, $22.95, ISBN 0-8071-2171-1. Paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-8071-2172-X) Get access Charlotte M. Gradie Charlotte M. Gradie Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Is…
The Indians' New South
The Indians' New South
Beyond 1492
Columbian Encounters
Beyond 1492
Journal Article Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America. By James Axtell. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. xx, 376 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-19-506838-6.) Get access Kenneth M. Morrison Kenneth M. Morrison Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Page 1427, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080616 Published: 01 …
Beyond 1492
The Moral Dimensions of 1492
What will We do Without Columbus? American History and American Indians after the Quincentennial
Many scholars of American Indian history watched with trepidation as 1992 approached. Although the five hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's landfall was sure to put their cherished subject fairly in the limelight for once, they had good reason to apprehend that serious scholarship might be buried in an avalanche of T-shirts and bumper stickers. At the very least, solid research was likely to be pushed aside by books and films chumed o…
Beyond 1492
The First Consumer Revolution
In The Past Twenty Years, One of My Scholarly Goals has been to demonstrate that Indian history cannot be separated without violence or chicanery from the history of European Americans, either in broad outline or in many cultural specifics. I have sought to remind students and readers that acculturation is always and everywhere a two-way street, that all the inhabitants of North America’s cultural frontiers were affected and changed by each other…
Moral Reflections on the Columbian Legacy
The Impetus Given By Outside Invitations To Put one’s thoughts on paper cannot be overvalued. Although invitations often arrive at inopportune moments (during final exams, the extraction of wisdom teeth, the arrival of a new baby), they almost always allow enough lead time to research, outline, and write the masterwork while ignoring only two other commitments and a trio of best laid plans. Occasionally, the results seem worth all the angst and y…
Beyond 1992
The Columbian Quincentenary Has Generated An abundance of public and academic scholarship, most of it of high quality. Perhaps quixotically, I have attempted to keep up with the flow for the sake of my teaching, my writing, and the American Historical Association’s Columbus Quincentenary Commit tee, which I chaired for its last two years. I also made the attempt out of sheer interest in the rare phenomenon of an international (rather than mere na…
Native Reactions to the Invasion of America
Perhaps The Greatest Difference Between The CoLumbian observances of 1892 and 1992 is that the American natives were virtually absent a century ago whereas today they are clearly at the center of attention. Indian voices loudly and clearly present their own views on the meaning of their ancestors’ discovery of Columbus and its deadly aftermath, while even non native academics ensure that the “Admiral of the Ocean Sea” no longer enjoys the limelig…
The Exploration of Norumbega
The History of Indian-European Relations In Colonial North America encompasses a wide variety of native groups, geographies, and contact situations, all evolving over time. Why and how choose one group or situation over another? How and why select one period over another? Answers will vary with historians because personal predilection—brewed from parentage, education, experience, rational calculation, and inexplicable likes and dislikes—plays a l…
Agents of Change
Some Invitations To Give Lectures or Write Articles feel just right: the desired topics seem comfortably within one’s intellectual range or reach. If my teaching, family, and un solicited writing obligations permit, I usually succumb to such enticements, particularly if the proffered audience, location, or honorarium is congenial. Outside offers serve as antidotes to our natural torpor and spurs to purposeful activity; if we’re publishing, we’re …
Humor in Ethnohistory
The Occasions When A Scholar Can Publicly “Let It all hang out,” can write about the subjects closest to his heart with relative disregard for the niceties and proscriptions of scholarly discourse, are rare. We simply don’t expect our button-down scholars to operate with the abandon of poets, novelists, and satirists, to drop the mask of cool, dispassionate reason to reveal the warm or silly humanness beneath.
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Ethnohistory
Although Ethnohistory is a disciplinary hybrid, anthropologists have dominated its definition and practice. In recent years, however, frontier historians and practitioners of the new Social History have moved strongly into the field. Their different but complementary approach to Ethnohistory needs to be recognized by their anthropological brethren. Signs of closer cooperation can already be seen in a number of recent works that betray little of t…
The Invasion Within
Beyond 1492
This is the third collection of essays by James Axtell, probably the most important ethnohistorian (dealing with American Indians and their relationship to white America) who is writing today. The new volume covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history, mainly in the 16th and 17th centuries. Axtell is concerned not only with the situation of American Indians, both before and after European colonization, but as well with the effect …
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's account of the doomed Narvaez expedition to the vast unexplored lands beyond the northern frontier of New Spain has long been heralded as the quintessential tale of the European confronting the wilderness of North America and its native inhabitants for the first time. After living captive among native peoples of the present-day Texas coast for almost six years, Cabeza de Vaca traveled overland through present-day west…
After Columbus
This collection of essays on the Indian-European relations in colonial North America includes the papers A Moral History of Indian-White Relations Revisited and Forked Tongues: Moral Judgment and Indian History. Both deal with the moral dimension in human history, raising various issues. James Axtell's first collection of essays on the same subject was entitled The European and the Indian
The European and the Indian
Red, White, and Black
The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping
tTt HE traditional wisdom of American history asserts that savage Indians scalped civilized whites in their resistance to taming of continent. Accordingly, when invasion of North America began, Europeans were innocent of practice, and though they eventually adopted it for their own bloody purposes, their teachers were still Indians, who had invented and perfected art. Increasingly in recent years, this traditional wisdom has been assailed as a se…
New American World
The Death of the Liberal Arts College
Washington, D.C., 2 July 1862. The American Liberal Arts College died today after a prolonged illness. It was 226 years old. Born on the salty backwashes of the Charles River in Cambridge shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded, the scion of Puritan Reform and Renaissance Civility grew to sturdy usefulness in the colonial years by overseeing America's leaders prior to their war for independence. When the new nation emerged, however…
The European and the Indian
After Columbus
The European and the Indian
Deals with the encounters of Europeans and Indians in colonial North America. A blending of history and anthropology, the author draws on a wide variety of sources, including archaeological findings, linguistics, accounts of colonists, art, and published scholarship
The Indians' New World
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America
Using the human life cycle as an organizational framework, Axtell has gathered a broad range of 17th and 18th century European documentation on Native North Americans. With its lucid introductions to each entry, suggestions for further reading, and bibliography, this sourcebook is invaluable for courses in history, anthropology, and native American and women's studies
The Invasion within
The Indian's New South
Journal Article The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast. By James Axtell. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. xvi, 102 pp. Cloth, $22.95, ISBN 0-8071-2171-1. Paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-8071-2172-X) Get access Charlotte M. Gradie Charlotte M. Gradie Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Is…
Columbian Encounters
Beyond 1492
Columbian Encounters
A MERICA has profited economically more than educationally from its major historical anniversaries. Typical was I976 when popular and scholastic understanding of America's revolutionary heritage and distinctive political origins was advanced much less than were the profits of corporate hucksters who cashed in on what Jesse Lemisch aptly called Bicentennial Schlock.1 Despite the considerable scholarship spawned by the Bicentennial, one of every th…
After Columbus
Journal Article After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. By James Axtell. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xii + 300 pp. $29.95.) Get access Daniel K. Richter Daniel K. Richter Dickinson College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 3, December 1989, Pages 906–907, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936449 Published: 01 December 1989
Colonial America without the Indians
Journal Article Colonial America without the Indians: Counterfactual Reflections Get access James Axtell James Axtell Professor of Humanities and professor of history College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 981–996, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904058 Published: 01 March 1987
Some Thoughts on the Ethnohistory of Missions
Education and Status in Stuart England
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND was a one-class characterized by a tiny minority of men-at best four or five percent of the population-who owned most of the wealth, wielded the power and made all the decisions, political/ economic and social for the national whole. (X) Admission to this charmed circle was open to those who could live without manual labour and could bear the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman. This included not only those of …
Education in Leicestershire 1540-1940
Locke's review of the Principia
The publication in July 1687 of Newton’s Principia mathematica gave rise to only four reviews in the European periodical press. The first was Edmond Halley’s pre-publication notice in the Philosophical Transactions (1). Then a year elapsed before the Bibliothèque Universelle (2), the Acta Eruditorum (3), and the Journal des Sçavans (4), approached the book. Of these reviews that which appeared in Jean Leclerc’s widely read Bibliothèque Universell…
The Mechanics of Opposition
The Mechanics of Opposition: Restoration Cambridge v. Daniel Scargill James L. Axtell James L. Axtell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, Volume 38, Issue 97, May 1965, Pages 102–111, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.1965.tb01640.x Published: 12 October 2007
Education in Leicestershire 1540-1940
The Educational Writings of John Locke
Education and Status in Stuart England
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND was a one-class characterized by a tiny minority of men-at best four or five percent of the population-who owned most of the wealth, wielded the power and made all the decisions, political/ economic and social for the national whole. (X) Admission to this charmed circle was open to those who could live without manual labour and could bear the port, charge and countenance of a gentleman. This included not only those of …
The Death of the Liberal Arts College
Washington, D.C., 2 July 1862. The American Liberal Arts College died today after a prolonged illness. It was 226 years old. Born on the salty backwashes of the Charles River in Cambridge shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded, the scion of Puritan Reform and Renaissance Civility grew to sturdy usefulness in the colonial years by overseeing America's leaders prior to their war for independence. When the new nation emerged, however…
Locke and the Politics of Education
The Scholastic Philosophy of the Wilderness
cc -N the beginning, John Locke had written, the World was IAmerica. There was no money, no unlimited accumulation of property, and consequently no need for elaborate institutions of government to control human greed. Eminently sociable and peaceloving, men in the state of nature lived according to reason, without a common Superior on Earth, with Authority to judge between them.' When it appeared in i690 Locke's picture of the natural condition m…
Indians, Moralists and Historians
The Vengeful Women of Marblehead
N August 12, i676, King Philip (Metacom) was killed by O colonial troops in his swamp fortress and Indian war that bore his name came to an end in southern New England. But in Maine different although related war had been ravaging coastal settlements since September i675 and would continue for two more years.1 Led by Squando and Mugg Heigon, both Sokokis, Indians laid waste every English settlement as far east as Casco Bay. Two peace treaties fai…
Held Captive by Indians
Through A Glass Darkly, Colonial Attitudes Toward the Native Americans
"Is man a salvage at heart, skinned o'er with Manners? Or is salvagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?" The question posed so delicately by Mary Mungummory," the traveling whore a ' Dorset " in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor, reflected an increasingly serious concern of generations of English colonists in America. In a culture that saw itself as the apotheosis and van…
Education and the Social Order in Colonial America
The School upon a Hill
Journal Article The School upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England. By James Axtell. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. xxi + 298 pp. Notes and index. $15.00.) Get access Winton U. Solberg Winton U. Solberg University of Illinois, Urbana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 62, Issue 1, June 1975, Pages 106–107, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901320 Publish…
The White Indians of Colonial America
HE English, like their French rivals, began their colonizing ventures in North America with a sincere interest in converting the Indians to Christianity and Nearly all the colonial charters granted by the English monarchs in the seventeenth century assigned the wish to extend the Christian Church and to redeem savage souls as a principal, if not the principal, motive for colonization.1 This desire was grounded in a set of complementary beliefs ab…
The School Upon a Hill
Controlled Superficiality in the Study of Colonial New England Education
Red, White, and Black
The Indians and Their Captives
The Ethnohistory of Early America
The Delawares
European Settlement and Development in North America
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America
Using the human life cycle as an organizational framework, Axtell has gathered a broad range of 17th and 18th century European documentation on Native North Americans. With its lucid introductions to each entry, suggestions for further reading, and bibliography, this sourcebook is invaluable for courses in history, anthropology, and native American and women's studies
Ethnohistory
Although Ethnohistory is a disciplinary hybrid, anthropologists have dominated its definition and practice. In recent years, however, frontier historians and practitioners of the new Social History have moved strongly into the field. Their different but complementary approach to Ethnohistory needs to be recognized by their anthropological brethren. Signs of closer cooperation can already be seen in a number of recent works that betray little of t…
The Inconstant Savage
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