James Axtell
Autor von The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America
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The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America (1981) 103 Exemplare
The Rise and Fall of the Powhatan Empire : Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (1995) 10 Exemplare
Imagining the Other: First Encounters in North America (Essays on the Columbian Encounter Series) (1991) 5 Exemplare
The Native American People of the West. 1 Exemplar
The Educational Writings of John Locket 1 Exemplar
"Who Invented Scalping?," 1 Exemplar
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The Story of America: Freedom and Crisis From Settlement to Superpower (2002) — einige Ausgaben — 132 Exemplare
Major Problems in the History of the American West: Documents and Essays (1989) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Axtell, James L.
- Geburtstag
- 1941-12-20
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Endicott, New York, USA
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- University of Cambridge (Trinity) (PhD|1967)
Yale University (AB|1963) - Berufe
- historian
professor - Organisationen
- College of William and Mary
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Fellow)
- Kurzbiographie
- William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities, Department of History, College of William and Mary
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The book is what it says it is; a history of the universities, with heavy emphasis on the USA. It’s very detailed but pretty dry. I would have liked to see what universities, like Cambridge and Oxford, in other countries had turned into as the ones in the US matured. Sure they have not stagnated for three hundred years. What about the German system that attracted so many students from the US in years before the American system got going? Interesting book but very specialized.… (mehr)