{"product_id":"prophetic-worlds-paperback","title":"Prophetic Worlds - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher L. Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChris Friday\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his provocative ethnohistory, Christopher Miller offers an innovative reinterpretation of relations between Native Americans and Christian settlers on the Columbia Plateau. Miller draws on a wealth of ethnographic resources to show how culturally-derived perceptions and systems of rationality played more of a determining role in the interactions between these two groups than did material forces. Initially, Plateau Indians and the American missionaries who came to convert them perceived each other as crucial to the fulfillment of their own millennial destiny. When these views were contravened, relations quickly and fatally soured. In explaining this devolution, \u003ci\u003eProphetic Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e provides a novel and insightful rendering of the cultural understandings that underwrote the mid-nineteenth-century transformation of life on the Plateau.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher L. Miller is associate professor of history and philosophy at the University of Texas-Pan American. His recent work includes \u003ci\u003eMaking America: A History of the United States.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 8.48 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724354457663,"sku":"9780295983028","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/25ececfc275e55f16b81a41e430edf61_29ddd8c0-0dca-4f46-a656-2bae023b54e2.webp?v=1765102376","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/prophetic-worlds-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}