The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume XXXVIII, Essays and miscellany
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creator: Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918
issued: 2019-05-06
issued: 1890
description: "Imprint varies: vols. 8, 14, 16-17, 22-26, 29-32, 34-39 published by the History Company of San Francisco. The list of authorities quoted in each volume includes mss. now in the Bancroft Library. The Works with changed t.p.'s and binder's titles and without the first five volumes, were published under the title History of the Pacific States of America. For the period up to the 1840s, it is necessary to consult all the volumes relating to the northwest Pacific. Bancroft's histories have been bitterly attacked on grounds of prejudice and failure to give adequate recognition to contributing authors. " . .. produced in a literary factory ... the work of many hands, they are spotty in quality": - Phil Townsend Hanna in Zamorano 80. "As time passes and prejudice drifts into obscurity, these works become more strongly entrenched each year. For scholars and investigators they will always remain the greatest source of authority": - Cowan. Contents: vols. 1-5. Native races.- vols.6-8. Central America. vols. 9-14. Mexico.- Vols.15-16. North American states and Texas.- vol.17. Arizona and New Mexico.- vols. 18-24. California.vol.25. Nevada, Colorado and Wyoming.- vol.26. Utah.- vols.27- 28. Northwest coast.- vols.29-30. Oregon.- vol.31. Washington, Idaho and Montana.- vol.32. British Columbia.- vol.33. Alaska.vol.34. California pastoral.- vol.35. California inter poculi.- vols. 36-37. Popular tribunals.- vol.38. Essays and miscellany.- vol.39. Literary industries."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 13
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note: THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT r THE WORKS HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT VOLUME XXXVIII ESSAYS AND MISCELLANY SAN FRANCISCO THE HISTORY COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 1890 An ARNO PRESS book published in cooperation with McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY New York Toronto London Sydney Manufactured in the U.S.A. ARNO PRESS, INC. Library of Congress Catalog Card #67-29422 CONTENTS OF THIS VOLUME. CHAPTER I. page. THE EARLY AMERICAN CHRONICLERS, 1 CHAPTER II. THE NEW CIVILIZATION, 39 CHAPTER III. ROOT DIGGERS AND GOLD DIGGERS, ; 54 CHAPTER IV. OUR TREATMENT OP THE NATIVE RACES, 65 CHAPTER V. HISTORY WRITING, , .. , 75 CHAPTER VI. CRITICISM, 113 CHAPTER VII. WORK , 148 CHAPTER VIII. BATTRE LE FER SCR l'ENCLUME, .-. 165 CHAPTER IX, SOCIAL ANALYSIS, 182 CHAPTER X. NATION-MAKING, 205 vi CONTENTS. CHAPTER XI. PA0E. TWO SIDES OF A VEXED QUESTION, 235 CHAPTER XII. THE JURY SYSTEM, 2$0 CHAPTER XIII. MONGOL1ANISM IN AMERICA, 309 CHAPTER XIV. MONEY AND MONOPOLY, 419 CHAPTER XV. LITERATURE OF CENTRAL AMERICA, 455 CHAPTER XVI. LITERATURE OP COLONIAL MEXICO, 481 CHAPTER XVII. LITERATURE OF MEXICO DURING THE PRESENT CENTURY 537 CHAPTER XVIII. EARLY CALIFORNIA LITERATURE 691 CHAPTER XIX. PLATO REVISED 6"9 ESSAYS AND MISCELLANY 1 CHAPTER I THE EARLY AMERICAN CHRONICLERS Facts can be accurately known to us only by the most rigid observation and sustained and scrutinizing scepticism —Fronde In the North American Review for April, 1876, appeared an article by Lewis H. Morgan entitled " Montezuma's Dinner,", in which the writer attempts to show that the native nations of Central and South America were not so far advanced in culture as from the evidence of priests and conquerors we have been led to suppose, were not indeed so far advanced as the Iroquois and some other northern tribes. As Mr Morgan takes for his text the second volume of my Native Races of the Pacific States, treating of the aboriginal civilization of the Mexican and Central American table-lands; and as his remarkable hypotheses affect not alone th…
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subject: Indians of North America
subject: Indians of North America--Bibliography
subject: Indians of Central America
subject: Mexico--History
subject: Central America--History
subject: British Columbia--History
subject: Pacific States
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