James Axtell

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James Axtell is affiliated with the following schools: Brown University, Yale University, Princeton University, Northwestern University, William & Mary

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#2416

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#671

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PhD History Brown University
Masters History Brown University

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According to Wikipedia, James L. Axtell was an American historian. He was a professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Axtell, whose interests lie in American Indian history and the history of higher education, was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. Axtell retired at the end of the spring 2008 semester, although he taught a class at Princeton University in the fall of 2009.

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James Axtell's Published Works

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The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America (1986) (233)
The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America (1982) (114)
After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. (1988) (79)
Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America (1993) (66)
Natives and newcomers : the cultural origins of North America (2001) (66)
The Unkindest Cut, or Who Invented Scalping (1980) (62)
The White Indians of Colonial America (1975) (59)
ETHNOHISTORY: AN HISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT1 (1979) (55)
The Mechanics of Opposition: Restoration Cambridge v. Daniel Scargill (1965) (52)
The School Upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England (1974) (51)
The educational writings of John Locke : a critical edition with introduction and notes (1968) (49)
Puritans among the Indians : accounts of captivity and redemption, 1676-1724 (1982) (45)
The European and the Indian. Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America (1983) (40)
Bronze Men and Golden Ages: The Intellectual History of Indian-White Relations in Colonial America@@@Savagism and Civility: Indians and Englishmen in Colonial Virginia@@@Settling with the Indians: The Meeting of English and Indian Cultures in America, 1580-1640 (1981) (40)
The Ethnohistory of Early America: A Review Essay (1978) (35)
Some Thoughts on the Ethnohistory of Missions (1982) (30)
The Death of the Liberal Arts College (1971) (26)
The Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast (1997) (23)
The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration and Defense of Higher Education (2000) (23)
The Making of Princeton University: From Woodrow Wilson to the Present (2006) (21)
The Indian peoples of Eastern America : a documentary history of the sexes (1979) (21)
Held Captive by Indians: Selected Narratives, 1642-1836 (1973) (21)
Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American History Textbooks (1987) (19)
Columbian Encounters: 1992-1995 (1995) (18)
Colonial America without the Indians: Counterfactual Reflections (1987) (16)
The Scholastic Philosophy of the Wilderness (1972) (13)
What's Wrong-And Right-With American Higher Education? (2003) (12)
Indian missions : a critical bibliography (1978) (11)
Columbian Encounters: Beyond 1992 (1992) (10)
The Power of Print in the Eastern Woodlands (1987) (9)
Education and Status in Stuart England: The London Physician (1970) (8)
History as Imagination (1987) (7)
The story of America - freedom and crisis from settlement to superpower (2002) (7)
Twenty-five reasons to publish (1997) (7)
Imagining the other : first encounters in North America (1991) (6)
Religion in life at Louisbourg, 1713-1758 (1984) (6)
The Vengeful Women of Marblehead: Robert Roules's Deposition of 1677 (1974) (6)
The Pleasures of Teaching History (2001) (6)
Humor in Ethnohistory (1990) (6)
Locke's review of the Principia (1965) (6)
A North American Perspective for Colonial History (1979) (5)
Locke, Newton, and "The Elements of Natural Philosophy" (1965) (4)
The European Failure to Convert the Indians: an Autopsy (1974) (4)
Wisdom's Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University (2016) (3)
A Moral History of Indian-White Relations Revisited. (1983) (2)
Invading America: Puritans and Jesuits@@@Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643@@@Indian and Jesuit: A Seventeenth-Century Encounter (1984) (2)
The Making of Princeton University (2006) (2)
Etablissement a Quebec (1616-1634) (1982) (2)
The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. (1983) (2)
The Indians' New South (1997) (2)
Natives and Newcomers (2000) (1)
The Educational Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: From College to Nation (2011) (1)
Historical Atlas of Canada@@@Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (1989) (1)
The Inconstant Savage: England and the North American Indian, 1500–1660. By H. C. Porter. (London: Duckworth, 1979. xix + 588 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. £21.00.) (1980) (1)
Ethnohistory: Theory and Practice@@@The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. (1982) (1)
High Priests and Missionaries@@@After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. (1989) (0)
Chapter Five. The German Impress (2016) (0)
Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676 (review) (2002) (0)
Chapter Two. Oxbridge (2016) (0)
Not Just Woodrow Wilson U (2006) (0)
The Making of the Princeton University Library, 1873–2003 (2003) (0)
Chapter Four. A Land of Colleges (2016) (0)
Epilogue. The Medieval Institution. That Ate the World (2016) (0)
After Columbus: Essays in the Ethno-History of Colonial North America. (1990) (0)
Chapter Six. Coming of Age (2016) (0)
Reviews of Books:Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America Daniel K. Richter (2002) (0)
The Bad Dream: Woodrow Wilson on Princeton—After Princeton (2008) (0)
The Business of Higher Education in America: Some Hopeful Prospects (2000) (0)
Rounding Out a Century: The Princeton Graduate School, 1969–2000 (2000) (0)
Moral Reflections on the Columbian Legacy (1992) (0)
The Dilettante Dean and the Origins of the Princeton Graduate School (2001) (0)
American Indians and Christian Missions: Studies in Cultural Conflict@@@Indian Missions: A Critical Bibliography (1983) (0)
The Moral Dimensions of 1492 (1993) (0)
Chapter Three. The Collegiate Way Abroad (2016) (0)
The Delawares: A Critical Bibliography@@@The Indians of the Northeast: A Critical Bibliography@@@The Cherokees: A Critical Bibliography@@@Indian Missions: A Critical Bibliography (1979) (0)
Through A Glass Darkly, Colonial Attitudes Toward the Native Americans (1974) (0)
Barbara Graymont. The Iroquois in the American Revolution. (New York State Study.) [Syracuse:] Syracuse University Press. 1972. Pp. x, 359. $11.50 (1973) (0)
Chapter Seven. Multiversities and Beyond (2016) (0)
Daniel K. Richter. Facing East From Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 317. $26.00 (2002) (0)
Imagining the other (1991) (0)
The Ethnohistory of Early America: A Reveiw Essay (2019) (0)
The American Indian and the Problem of History ed. by Calvin Martin (review) (2016) (0)
William Cronon. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang or McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto. 1983. Pp. x, 241. Cloth $15.95, paper $6.95 (1984) (0)
Education in Leicestershire 1540-1940 (1969) (0)
The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes (1984) (0)
Chapter One. Foundings (2016) (0)
Joy in Muddville (2009) (0)

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