Axtell, James. Beyond 1492 : Encounters in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1992.

A collection of essays exploring both European and Indian perspectives on the invasion of North America.  The text is concerned with the moral implications of early interactions and concludes with a historiographical discussion of the debate with special emphasis on the quincentenary of Columbus’ arrival.

_____. Natives and Newcomers: the Cultural Origins of North America. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001.

“The volume is anchored geographically—East of the Appalachian Mountains—an chronologically—between Columbus’ voyage in 1492 and the conclusion of the American Revolution in 1783.  The fourteen essays.... contains elements of history, anthropology, culture, and lively analysis of the porous nature of the barrier between natives and newcomers.”  James T. Carroll, The History Teacher, vol. 35:1 (Nov. 2001), p. 108-9.

_____. The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

These ten essays employ a wide range of interdisciplinary approaches to present both a discussion and example of ethnohistory in Colonial America.  Themes addressed include methodology, image, kinship, language, and cultural adaptations.  The text is divided into four parts: first, an analysis of ethnohistory methods; second, European efforts to convert the Indian; third, Indian impact on Europeans; and finally, a summation of mutual impact and labels applied in the “American Encounter.” 

Churchill, Ward. A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997. 

Argues that Native Americans were clearly the victims of a physical and cultural genocide that continues to this day.  The text begins with a discussion of denial and continues with a three chapter summary of Indian history from Columbus to the present.  Churchill comments on U.S. support for foreign genocides against Native peoples throughout Latin America.  The final chapters examine Indian nations as an “internal colony” and discuss why the U.S. refused to ratify the Genocide Convention.

Given, Brian J. A Most Pernicious Thing: Gun Trading and Native Warfare in the Early Contact
Period. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1994.

This text discusses the myth of European military technological superiority and argues that Native weapons better served thier owners than the European matchlock muskets of the colonial era.

Jennings, Francis. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest.
Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press, 1975.

The “thrust of research is on seventeenth century New England Puritan colonials,” and it “argues convincingly that Indians as well as colonials had humanity as well as savagery.  In the second part of the book, Jennings finds what most of us have suspected, that there is ‘no substantiation for the filiopietist portrayal of them in a semidivine state…’” Wilbur Jacobs, Ethnohistory, vol. 23:1 (Winter, 1976), p. 83.

Kavanagh, Thomas W. Comanche Political History, 1706-1875: An Ethnohistorical PerspectiveLincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

“Kavanagh has gone through Spanish, Mexican, and United States archival materials and has culled from these records every reference to the Comanche people.  Using this mass of information, he skillfully traces the history of the Comanche political structure from the first European mention in 1706 until their surrender at Fort Still in May 1875.”  Willard Hughes Rollings, The Journal of American History, vol. 84:2 (Sep., 1997), p. 621.

Lightfoot, Kent G, Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: the Legacy of Colonial Encounters on
the California Frontiers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

“Lightfoot exemplifies the historical approach in anthropology by critically synthesizing documentary, oral, and archaeological data to examine late seventeenth and early eighteenth Century encounters involving Spanish and Russian colonies and the native peoples of coastal California.” Arthur A. Joyce, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 6:2 (Fall, 2005).

Mancall, Peter C. and James Hart Merrell. American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850. New York: Routledge, 2000.

This collection of twenty-five previously published but classic articles discuss Indian-European interactions stressing a wide variety of issues including resistance, cultural exchange, and wage labor.

Merrell, James. The Indians New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
1989.

Uses archeology, anthropology, and folklore to trace the Carolina Piedmont tribe from the sixteenth century until mid nineteenth century focusing on the Indians’ adaptations as they interacted with disease, diplomats, missionaries, and traders.

Morrison, Kenneth M. American Indian History: A Reader in Early Culture Contact, 1492-1760.
Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, 1981.

A collection of essays that focus on images, missions, trade, Indian-Indian relations, and culture changes.  Over two dozen authors including James Axtell, James Ronda, and Gary Nash.

Phillips, George Harwood. Bringing them Under Subjection: California's Tejón Indian
Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
2004.

This is the third and final volume of Phillips’ study on the San Joaquin Valley.  It examines “relocation, dislocation, and subjection” and how Indians “underwent cultural, economic, political, and demographic transformation of staggering proportions” (251).  The text addresses cultural disruption from the gold rush, treaties, and Euro-American attempts to subjugate Indians independent of treaties. 

Richter, Daniel K. Facing East from Indian Country: a Native History of Early America.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2001.

Traces the first three centuries of contact between Indians and Europeans emphasizing cultural adaptation and indigenous perspectives.  Considerable attention is paid to three specific figures (Pocahontas, Kateri Tekakwitha, and Metacom) to demonstrate Native American’s preference for cooperation over conflict. 

Salisbury, Neal. Manitouand Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England,
1500-1643. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

This ethnohistory traces interactions between Indians and Europeans (French and English) in New England during the first half of the seventeenth century.  After the initial chapter ("Families and Hunters") that relates to Algonquian culture before European contact , the remaining six chapters contrast Native Americans and Europeans from “Hunters and Traders” to “Losers and Winners.”

Steele, Ian Kenneth. Warpaths: Invasions of North America. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1994.

Traces Native American and European territorial conflicts from Ponce de Leon’s 1513 defeat near modern day St. Augustine through the 1765 peace negotiations between Britain and the tribes of the Old Northwest.  This text pays special attention to the transmission of technology and military strategy to disprove prior interpretations of indigenous military inferiority or European tactical rigidity.  

Thornton, Russell. American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Examines demographic catastrophes, booms, and general trends in Indian population from before Columbus’ and through the 20th century growth (though Thornton concludes that increasing urbanization will ultimately stun recent Indian population growth).  Thorton interprets a population decline before the arrival of Europeans and revises former estimates to draw his own new conclusions.

Wolf, Eric R. Europe and the People Without History. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1982.

This text discusses European interaction with the rest of the world throughout the modern era.  The first of three main sections provides a background of the world and the West at 1400; the second traces European expansion and its impact on world during pre-industrial era (with particular focus on African slave trade and North American fur trade); and the third section expounds on Europe’s impact on the non-Western world during Europe’s capitalist and industrialized era.