@book {9886,
	title = {Encounters in the New World: A History in Documents},
	year = {2000},
	note = {Paperback, 2002.},
	publisher = {Oxford University Press},
	organization = {Oxford University Press},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {A collection of primary sources documenting the early clash of cultures in the Americas, Encounters in the New World spans the years from Columbus{\textquoteright}s voyage in 1492 to the publication of the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a former slave, in 1789. Emotional eyewitness accounts--memoirs, petitions, diaries, captivity narratives, private correspondence--as well as formal documents, official reports, and journalistic reportage give body and texture to the historical events described. A special 16-page color cartographic section, including maps from both Europe and North America, is fascinating not only for the maps{\textquoteright} telltale imperfections, but also because they convey information about how their creators saw themselves and the world around them. A Jesuit priest{\textquoteright}s chronicle of life among his Iroquois captors, Aztec records of forbidding omens, excerpts from Columbus{\textquoteright}s ship{\textquoteright}s log, John Smith{\textquoteright}s account of cannibalism among the British residents of Jamestown, slave auction advertisements, memoirs by several members of Cortes{\textquoteright}s expedition, the reminiscences of an escaped slave-these are just a few examples of the wealth of primary sources collected here. Jill Lepore, winner of the distinguished Bancroft Prize for history in 1999, provides informed, expert commentary linking the documents into a fascinating and seamless narrative.  Textbooks may interpret history, but the books in the Pages from History series are history. Each title, compiled and edited by a prominent historian, is a collection of primary sources relating to a particular topic of historical significance. Documentary evidence including news articles, government documents, memoirs, letters, diaries, fiction, photographs, and facsimiles allows history to speak for itself and turns every reader into a historian. Headnotes, extended captions, sidebars, and introductory essays provide the essential context that frames the documents. All the books are amply illustrated and each spans the years froincludes a documentary picture essay, chronology, further reading, source notes, and index.},
	url = {http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/ColonialRevolutionary/?view=usa\&ci=9780195105131},
	author = {J Lepore}
}
