Professor Alice Nash recently co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (Routledge 2019), working with a team of fifteen international scholars through the Inter-American Studies Center at Bielefeld University in Germany. She also contributed a chapter on “Indigenous Peoples,” an overview of Indigenous peoples across the Americas from creation to 1900 -- in 7,000 words!
The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas encourages readers to think of the Americas as a hemispheric place of transfers, entanglements, and flows, rather than separate countries.. Forty-four chapters cover a range of concepts and dynamics in the Americas from before Columbus to the present century: The shared histories and dynamics of inter-American relationships are considered through pre-Hispanic empires, colonization, European hegemony, migration, multiculturalism, and political and economic interdependencies. Key concepts are selected and explored from different geopolitical, disciplinary, and epistemological perspectives. Highlighting the contested character of key concepts that are usually defined in strict disciplinary terms, the Handbook provides the basis for a better and deeper understanding of inter-American entanglements. This multidisciplinary approach will be of interest to a broad array of academic scholars and students in history, sociology, political science, cultural, postcolonial, gender, literary, and globalization studies. More information about the collection can be found here.