The Americas that might have been : Native American social systems through time /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the whys and wherefores
- Men out of Asia
- America 1492
- Native philosophies of life
- Unitary norms : the Asian perspective
- The dualistic view : the European norm
- The trinary compromise : the Near Eastern norm
- The empire of Tawantinsuyu
- The empire of the Méxica
- The Maya kingdoms
- The Mississippian cities and towns
- The Pueblo towns
- The Taíno kingdoms
- Hemispheric-internal relationships in the twenty-first century : the inner design
- Commerce and discovery of the old world
- International alliances and interaction in the twenty-first century : the outer scheme
- Epilogue: the first Baktun.