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020			_a9781139135429 (ebook)
020			_z9781107022133 (hardback)
020			_z9781316615829 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aE99.M6815 _bB435 2013
082	0	0	_a975.7/2501 _223
100	1		_aBeck, Robin, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aChiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South / _cRobin Beck ; foreword by Charles M. Hudson.
246	3		_aChiefdoms, Collapse, & Coalescence in the Early American South
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (322 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis book provides a new conceptual framework for understanding how the Indian nations of the early American South emerged from the ruins of a precolonial, Mississippian world. A broad regional synthesis that ranges over much of the Eastern Woodlands, its focus is on the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont - the Catawbas and their neighbors - from 1400 to 1725. Using an 'eventful' approach to social change, Robin Beck argues that the collapse of the Mississippian world was fundamentally a transformation of political economy, from one built on maize to one of guns, slaves and hides. The story takes us from first encounters through the rise of the Indian slave trade and the scourge of disease to the wars that shook the American South in the early 1700s. Yet the book's focus remains on the Catawbas, drawing on their experiences in a violent, unstable landscape to develop a comparative perspective on structural continuity and change.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107022133
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139135429
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37224 _d37224