The Tainos : Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus by Rouse, Irving

UsedGood. Clean, great binding. Cover shows light wear from reading/handling. Dog-Eared Books is a small, women owned and operated business. There's a small nick on the edge of the cover.

Yale University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii, 211 pp. "When Columbus arrived in the Americas. the first people he encountered were the Tainos, inhabitants of the islands of the northern Caribbean Sea. In this book a noted archaeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos from their ancestral days on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers." - dust jacket. Attempts to answer "Who were the Tainos? Whence came their ancestors? How did they evolve and become dominant in the West Indies? Why did they decline and disappear under European Rule? What innovations did they contribute to the rest of the world?" - Preface. Includes: Glossary, Index, and Reference List. Includes forty black and white illustrations. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An attractive copy of this… Read More

Yale University Press. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!