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Título Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England
Autor Jean M. O'Brien
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición 1st Edition 1st
Páginas 320
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial University of Minnesota Press
Fecha de publicación 2010-05
Ilustrado Sí
ISBN 9780816665785 / 0816665788
Peso 0.75 libras (0.34 kg)
Dimensiones 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 pulgadas (21.59 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
Library of Congress subjects New England - History - 19th century, New England - Historiography
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2010003781
Dewey Decimal Code 974.03

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Jean M. O'Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, where she is also affiliated with American Indian studies and American studies. She is the author of Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790.

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University of Minnesota Press, 2010. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First paperback edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England's original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled. In Firsting and Lasting, Jean M. O'Brien argues that local histories became a primary means by which European Americans asserted their own modernity while denying it to Indian peoples. Erasing and then memorializing Indian peoples also served a more pragmatic colonial goal: refuting Indian claims to… Leer más