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• 001 0000895341

• 003 OCoLC

• 005 20191104114200.0

• 008 140512t20152014nyuab b 001 0 eng d

• 020 __ |a 0374535116

• 020 __ |a 9780374535117

• 035 __ |a (OCoLC)879582765

• 040 __ |a YDXCP |b eng |e rda |c YDXCP |d BTCTA |d BDX |d OCLCQ |d G8V |d CCP |d OCLCO |d HNW |d INA |d SOI |d ITD |d UMS |d OCLCF |d BGU |d UtOrBLW

• 050 04 |a E99.M2 |b F46 2015

• 082 04 |a 305.897/522 |2 23

• 090 __ |a K712.8/F334

• 093 __ |a K712.8 |2 5

• 100 1_ |a Fenn, Elizabeth A. |q (Elizabeth Anne), |d 1959- |e author

• 245 10 |a Encounters at the heart of the world : |b a history of the Mandan people / |c Elizabeth A. Fenn

• 250 __ |a First paperback edition

• 264 _1 |a New York : |b Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2015

• 300 __ |a xix, 456 pages : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 21 cm

• 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent

• 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia

• 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier

• 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index

• 505 0_ |a Part I : Discovering the heart of the world. Migrations : the making of the Mandan people ; Contacts : villagers and newcomers ; Earthwork : the substances of daily life ; Connections : sustained European contact begins -- Part II : Inventions and reinventions. Customs : the spirits of daily life ; Upheavals : eighteenth-century transformations ; Scourge : the smallpox of 1781 -- Part III : at the heart of many worlds. Convergences : forces beyond the horizon ; Hosts : the Mandans receive Lewis and Clark ; Corn : the fuel of plains commerce -- Part IV : new adversities. Sheheke : the metamorphosis of a chief ; Reorientation : the United States and the upper Missouri ; Visitations : rats, steamboats, and the Sioux ; Decimation : "the smallpox has broke out"

• 520 __ |a "A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them mostly because Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1804-1805 with them, but why don't we know more? Who were they really? In this extraordinary book, Elizabeth A. Fenn retrieves their history by piecing together important new discoveries in archaeology, anthropology, geology, climatology, epidemiology, and nutritional science. Her boldly original interpretation of these diverse research findings offers us a new perspective on early American history, a new interpretation of the American past. By 1500, more than twelve thousand Mandans were established on the northern Plains, and their commercial prowess, agricultural skills, and reputation for hospitality became famous. Recent archaeological discoveries show how they thrived, and then how they collapsed. The damage wrought by imported diseases like smallpox and the havoc caused by the arrival of horses and steamboats were tragic for the Mandans, yet, as Fenn makes clear, their sense of themselves as a people with distinctive traditions endured. A riveting account of Mandan history, landscapes, and people, Fenn's narrative is enriched and enlivened not only by science and research but by her own encounters at the heart of the world"-- |c Provided by publisher

• 650 _0 |a Mandan Indians |x History

• 650 _0 |a Mandan Indians |x Government relations

• 650 _0 |a Mandan Indians |x Social life and customs

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