{"product_id":"native-nations-a-millennium-in-north-america-9780525511038","title":"Native Nations: A Millennium in North America","description":"\u003cp\u003ePULITZER PRIZE WINNER  A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history (The New York Review of Books)  from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today  WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE  THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE  AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE  Long 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.  A 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 understandthose having developed differently from their ownand whose power they often underestimated.  For centuries afterward  Indigenous people maintained an upper hand and used Europeans in pursuit of their own interests. In Native Nations  we see how Mohawks closely controlled trade with the Dutchand influenced global marketsand how Quapaws manipulated French colonists. Power dynamics shifted after the American Revolution  but Indigenous people continued to command much of the continents 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.  In 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 constantand will continue far into the future.  An essential American historyThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651886506037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0525511032","price":79.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780525511038.jpg?v=1781843910","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/native-nations-a-millennium-in-north-america-9780525511038","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}