1985, ISBN: 9780521228039

Taschenbuch, Gebundene Ausgabe, Erstausgabe

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc, 1959. Reprint edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xiii, [3], 413, [3] pages. Footnotes. Index. Some endpaper and edge soiling. DJ… Mehr…

New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc, 1959. Reprint edition. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Good/Fair. xiii, [3], 413, [3] pages. Footnotes. Index. Some endpaper and edge soiling. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. This is par of the Original Narratives of Early American History produced under the auspices of the American Historical Association under the General Editorship of J. Franklin Jameson. The three narratives printed in this book are but a small selection from among many scores; for the narratives of Spanish explorers in the southern United States constitute an extensive literature. But if interest and historical importance are both taken into account, it is believed that these three hold an undisputed preeminence among such 'relations.' Frederick Webb Hodge (October 28, 1864 - September 28, 1956) was an American editor, anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian. He graduated from Cambridge College (now George Washington University). He became very interested in Native American history and cultures, and worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1905 to 1918. He collaborated with George Gustav Heye, who had been collecting Native American artifacts, and established the Heye Foundation to support archeological work. Heye founded the Museum of the American Indian in 1916 in New York, where Hodge later served as editor and assistant director. During his time at the Smithsonian, Hodge also conducted archeological expeditions and excavations at Nacoochee Mound in Georgia, and at Hawikuh, near Zuni Pueblo. He also served as executive officer at the Smithsonian Institution. Theodore Hayes Lewis was the first archaeologist to systematically survey and record archaeological sites in Minnesota. He was born in 1856 and disappeared in Colorado in 1909. He was educated in Ohio and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1878 where he worked as a surveyor investigating antiquities from 1878-1880. He began work on the Northwestern Archaeological Survey during the years 1880-1883 and became associated with Alfred J. Hill in 1881, who paid most of his research expenses and contracted with Lewis to complete a survey of Native American burial mounds in Minnesota and other nearby states. Between 1883 and 1895 Lewis surveyed more than 12,000 mounds in Minnesota, Canada and surrounding states. From 1884 to 1907, he published over 50 scholarly articles about his research in Minnesota, which have formed the basis of knowledge about petroglyphs, incised boulders, burial mounds and cave art in the state. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1488/90/92 - after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios ("The Account and Commentaries"). Cabeza de Vaca is sometimes considered a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans that he encountered. Hernando de Soto (c. 1500 - 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula. He played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout what is now the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, which had been reported by various Native American tribes and earlier coastal explorers, and for a passage to China or the Pacific coast. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River; different sources disagree on the exact location, whether it was what is now Lake Village, Arkansas, or Ferriday, Louisiana. The first account of the expedition to be published was by the Gentleman of Elvas, an otherwise unidentified Portuguese knight who was a member of the expedition. His chronicle was first published in 1557. An English translation by Richard Hakluyt was published in 1609. Pedro De Castaneda was a chronicler of the Coronado Expedition to Quivira in 1540-42. Castaneda was a native of the Biscayan town of Najera in Spain. He came to the Americas before the middle of the 16th century and became prominently identified with Mexico's government and affairs. He lived in the Mexican town of Culiacan from which the expedition set out, at which time he was listed on the muster roll as departing with two horses, one coat of mail, and "native weapons." His Coronado Expedition account was first written in Mexico soon after the event, but the original manuscript has disappeared. After returning to Spain, Castaneda made a copy, which was finished on October 26, 1596. His narrative was not published but remained in the archives until translated first to French and then to English. The Spanish manuscript, now in the Lenox Library in New York, was translated into English by George P. Winship, assistant in American History at Harvard University. His translation was published in the 14th annual report of the United States Bureau of Ethnology. Castaneda's account ranks with the log of Christopher Columbus and De Soto's expedition as one of the most important documents on the early European exploration of North America., Barnes & Noble, Inc, 1959, 2.25, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1898. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Original wrappers. Folio. (32 x 21 cm). bilingual in English and French. [8], 26, [2] p. First printed edition of these minutes by the Foreign Ministry of France in 1897-1898 on Bahr Al-Ghazal, Lake Chad, and the Upper Nile regions. The tensions between French and British relations were high in the 1875-1898 era. especially over Egyptian and African issues. At several points, these issues brought the two nations to the brink of war; but the situation was always defused diplomatically. For two decades, there was peace-but it was "an armed peace, characterized by alarms, distrust, rancor, and irritation." During the Scramble for Africa in the 1880s, the British and French generally recognized each other's spheres of influence. In an agreement in 1890, Great Britain was recognized in Bahr-el-Ghazal and Darfur, while Wadai, Bagirmi, Kanem, and the territory to the north and east of Lake Chad were assigned to France. The Suez Canal, initially built by the French, became a joint British-French project in 1875, as both saw it as vital to maintaining their influence and empires in Asia. In 1882, ongoing civil disturbances in Egypt (see Urabi Revolt) prompted Britain to intervene, extending a hand to France. France's expansionist Prime Minister Jules Ferry was out of office, and the government was unwilling to send more than an intimidating fleet to the region. Britain established a protectorate, as France had a year earlier in Tunisia, and popular opinion in France later put this action down to duplicity. It was at this time that the two nations established co-ownership of Vanuatu. The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 was also signed to resolve territory disagreements in western Africa. One brief but dangerous dispute occurred during the Fashoda Incident in 1898 when French troops tried to claim an area in the Southern Sudan, and a British force purporting to be acting in the interests of the Khedive of Egypt arrived. Under heavy pressure, the French withdrew and Britain took control over the area, As France recognized British control of Sudan. France received control of the small kingdom of Wadai, Which consolidated its holdings in northwest Africa. France had failed in its main goals. Fashoda was a diplomatic victory for the British because the French realized that in the long run, they needed friendship with Britain in case of a war between France and Germany. (Wikipedia)., Imprimerie Nationale, 1898, 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.. 1st edition. "...covers the period 1870-1905, when the European powers (Britain, France, Germany, Portugal and Italy) divided the continent into colonial territories and vied with each other for control over vast tracts of land and valuable mineral resources. At the same time, it was a period during which much of Africa still had a history of its own. Colonial governments were very weak and could exist only by playing off indigenous forces. African politics to a large extent pursued their own policies, and played a large part both in opening up the continent to outside influences and in building larger political unities." Pp.16/956, 27 maps, owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. A heavy book (weight approx.1.7Kg). VG., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985., 0<