Russell Thornton

The Cherokees

A Population History

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The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to In-dian… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8032-9410-3
EAN: 9780803294103
Produktnummer: 1588176
Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
Seitenangabe: 239 S.
Masse: H23.0 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.4 cm 388 g
Abbildungen: Illus., maps
Gewicht: 388

Über den Autor

Russell Thornton, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492 (1987).