{"product_id":"native-nations-a-millennium-in-north-america-paperback","title":"Native Nations: A Millennium in North America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Duval\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLong before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways that reverberated globally. And, as award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal vividly recounts, when Europeans did arrive, no civilization came to a halt because of a few wandering explorers, even when the strangers came well armed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA millennium ago, North American cities rivaled urban centers around the world in size. Then, following a period of climate change and instability, numerous smaller nations emerged, moving away from rather than toward urbanization. From this urban past, egalitarian government structures, diplomacy, and complex economies spread across North America. So, when Europeans showed up in the sixteenth century, they encountered societies they did not understand--those having developed differently from their own--and whose power they often underestimated. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor centuries afterward, Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In \u003ci\u003eNative Nations, \u003c\/i\u003e we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutch--and influenced global markets--and how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution, but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continent's land and resources. Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa forged new alliances and encouraged a controversial new definition of Native identity to attempt to wall off U.S. ambitions. The Cherokees created institutions to assert their sovereignty on the global stage, and the Kiowas used their power in the west to regulate the passage of white settlers across their territory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant--and will continue far into the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An essential American history\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning historian \u003cb\u003eKathleen DuVal\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes \u003ci\u003eIndependence Lost, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent.\u003c\/i\u003e She is a coauthor of \u003ci\u003eGive Me Liberty! \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eInterpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 752\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 9.4 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978280010029,"sku":"9780525511052","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/lcphln9BX49780525511052.webp?v=1775801425","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/native-nations-a-millennium-in-north-america-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}