The roots of dependency

by White, Richard

Richard White's study of the collapse into `dependency' of three Native American subsistence economies represents the best kind of interdisciplinary effort. Here ideas and approaches from several fields-mainly anthropology, history, and ecology-are fruitfully combined in one inquiring mind closely focused on a related set of large, salient problems. . . . A very sophisticated study, a `best read' in Indian history. -American Historical Review.