Books written by James Axtell
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The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
Henry Timberlake's Memoirs, 1756-1765, ed. Samuel Cole Williams (Johnson City, Tenn., 1927), 90-91; Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-1687/8 ...
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After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America
This volume comprises a new collection of essays--four previously unpublished--by James Axtell, author of the acclaimed The European and the Indian and The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America, and the foremost ...
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Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America
Coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of America, this collection covers a wide range of topics dealing with American history.
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The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
For anyone interested in or associated with Princeton, past or present, this is a book to savor.
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Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
In particular, James Axtell focuses on the ways that the best American universities took on Continental influences, developing into the finest expressions of the modern university and enviable models for kindred institutions worldwide.
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The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England
Provides a provocative new insight into the changing pattern of New England cultural and social history. William and Mary Quarterly"
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The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
Based on the fifty-eighth series of Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures, The Indians' New South is a colorful, accessible account of the clash of cultures in the colonial Southeast.
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The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education
In this timely book, historian James Axtell offers a compelling defense of higher education.
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Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America
Natives and Newcomers describes the major encounters between Indians and Europeans -- first contacts, communications, epidemics, trade and gift-giving, social and sexual mingling, work, conversions, military clashes -- and probes the short- ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire: Indians in Seventeenth-century Virginia
This book describes how the English vied with the Powhatan Indians to dominate the lands and resources in Tidewater Virginia.
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The invasion within: the contest of cultures in Colonial North America
The French Jesuits, on the other hand, managed to keep the English at bay for a century and a half by adapting themselves to native life and so converting thousands of Indians to Catholicism. this is the first of three volumes in James ...
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Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America
No one has done more to discover and recount this story than James Axtell, one of America's premier ethnohistorians.
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Beyond 1942: encounters in colonial North America
Beyond 1942: encounters in colonial North America
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The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes
This fascinating collection of primary source materials provides a unique introduction to the woodland Indians who inhabited Northeastern America in the region bordered by the Carolinas, the Great Lakes, and the maritime provinces of Canada ...
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The Princeton Graduate School: A History
First published in 1978, The Princeton Graduate School: A History has been revised and expanded, with new chapters recounting the dramatic growth of graduate education since World War II. The updated edition celebrates the centennial of the ...
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The American People: Teacher's Guide
The American People: Teacher's Guide
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America Perceived: Teacher's Guide
America Perceived: Teacher's Guide
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The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast
Henry Timberlake's Memoirs, 1756-1765, ed. Samuel Cole Williams (Iohnson City, Tenn.: Watauga Press, 1927), 90-91; Adair's History, 187; Braund, Deerskins (9“Du_;ffizls, 130; Alexander Longe, “A Small Postscript of the Ways and Manners ...
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Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University
Clark W. Bryan, 1873), ch. 3. 20 Beadie and Tolley, Chartered Schools, 332; Beadie, “Academy Students,” 255. 21 Knight, DHES 4:34, 47, 55. 22 In Princeton's class of 1853, only 19 of 89 matriculants entered in the first semester of ...
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The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present
The two headline collections were those of Robert H. Taylor '30 and William H. Scheide '36, alumni who read their books ... Dix also built on the outstanding legacy of Julian Boyd in collecting "the records that serve to illuminate and ...