1st Edition

A Millennium of Cultural Contact

By Alistair Paterson Copyright 2011
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    Alistair Paterson has written a comprehensive textbook detailing the millennium of cultural contact between European societies and those of the rest of the world. Beginning with the Norse intersection with indigenous peoples of Greenland, Paterson uses case studies and regional overviews to describe the various patterns by which European groups influenced, overcame, and were resisted by the populations of Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Oceania, and Australia. Based largely on the evidence of archaeology, he is able to detail the unique interactions at many specific points of contact and display the wide variations in exploration, conquest, colonization, avoidance, and resistance at various spots around the globe. Paterson’s broad, student-friendly treatment of the history and archaeology of the last millennium will be useful for courses in historical archaeology, world history, and social change.

    1: The World after AD 1000; 2: Our Attempts to Understand Culture Contact; 3: Encounters in the Northwest Atlantic; 4: Europe and Its Neighbors; 5: Sub-Saharan Africa; 6: The Spanish in the Americas; 7: North America; 8: East Asia and Oceania; 9: Australia; 10: Millennium

    Biography

    Alistair Paterson