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Zamumo's Gifts - (Early American Studies) by Jr (Paperback)

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  • In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto.
  • About the Author: Joseph M. Hall, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Bates College.
  • 248 Pages
  • History, United States
  • Series Name: Early American Studies

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About the Book



Zamumo's Gifts traces the evolution of Indian-European exchange, from gift giving as a diplomatic tool to the trade of commodities that bound colonists and Natives in commercial relations.



Book Synopsis



In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy or traded commodities for profit, Natives and newcomers alike used the exchange of goods such as cloth, deerskin, muskets, and sometimes people as a way of securing their influence. Gifts and trade enabled early colonies to survive and later colonies to prosper. Conversely, they upset the social balance of chiefdoms like Zamumo's and promoted the rise of new and powerful Indian confederacies like the Creeks and the Choctaws.

Drawing on archaeological studies, colonial documents from three empires, and Native oral histories, Joseph M. Hall, Jr., offers fresh insights into broad segments of southeastern colonial history, including the success of Florida's Franciscan missionaries before 1640 and the impact of the Indian slave trade on French Louisiana after 1699. He also shows how gifts and trade shaped the Yamasee War, which pitted a number of southeastern tribes against English South Carolina in 1715-17. The exchanges at the heart of Zamumo's Gifts highlight how the history of Europeans and Native Americans cannot be understood without each other.



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"Zamumo's Gifts is a book with many gifts to bestow. Ranging widely across the centuries, going deeply into English, French, Spanish, and native sources, Joseph Hall reads the evidence with insight and imagination to shed important new light on America's 'dark ages, ' a largely forgotten era when natives and newcomers contended for the Continent."-- "James Merrell, author of Into the American Woods"

"A fascinating, well-researched, and extremely well-written volume that accomplishes a great deal. . . . This book will most certainly have immense and immediate impacts on historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, and others interested in the nature of exchange in the colonial Southeast."-- "American Historical Review"

"An exemplary study."-- "Journal of American History"

"Hall tells a complicated story with skill and insight. His exposition of the importance of the Mississippian world to the creation of the colonial world suggests that we ought to rethink what we mean by colonial."-- "American Indian Culture & Research Journal"



About the Author



Joseph M. Hall, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Bates College.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Early American Studies
Sub-Genre: United States
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 248
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Jr
Language: English
Street Date: December 13, 2012
TCIN: 94136794
UPC: 9780812222234
Item Number (DPCI): 247-19-4119
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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