Encounters in the New World :  a history in documents / 
[edited by] Jill Lepore. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2002, c2000. 
 - 175 p. :  ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ;  26 cm. 
 - Pages from history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-168) and index. 
<br/><br/>What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction -- On the turtle's back ; Why Europe? ; Dealing with the documents -- Mapping the world -- Ptolemy's revolution ; Christian world ; Expanding world ; America emerges ; Vanishing maps ; Lines and circles -- First encounters -- Prophecies, plans, and fantasies ; First impressions ; Gods? Savages? ; Dividing the sexes ; Catalog of nature ; Indians abroad -- Conquest and resistance -- Montezuma, Quetzalcoatl, and Cortes ; Eight-year journey ; Invading the interior ; Great debate ; Missions and presidios -- Furs, rivers, and black robes -- Peoples of the Longhouse ; New France ; Society of Jesus ; New worlds, new women ; Covenants of war and peace -- English arrive -- Go west ; Roanoke, the lost colony ; Powhatan and his people ; Founding Jamestown ; Pocahontas and her legacy -- Africans in America -- Kidnapped ; Tips for slave traders ; Ships of death ; For sale ; Africans' new worlds ; Two views ; Runaways and rebels -- Planting New England -- Metacom's Rebellion ; Manitou and the city on a hill ; Marking the landscape ; Praying Indians. 
<br/><br/> A collection of documents illustrating encounters between Native American peoples and a variety of European newcomers from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Includes maps, journals, advertisements, and letters. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195154916 (pbk.) 9780195154917 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indians--History--Sources--Juvenile literature.<br/>Indians--First contact with Europeans--Juvenile literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E59.F53  / E56h 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>970.004/97