The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Vol. 1 North America (2 parts)

Providing a scholarly and comprehensive history of the native peoples of North America, including the Eskimos of Alaska, and the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic, this latest large‐scale co‐operative history to be published by Cambridge University Press, follows the traditional pattern of offering a synthesis of existing knowledge rather than the results of original research, or of innovative approaches to an area of study in which historians acknowledge their debt to anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other specialists in native culture. Not without some difficulty the two editors, one an American historian, the other a Canadian anthropologist, succeeded in assembling a...