The White Man's Indian; Images of the American Indian From Columbus to the Present de Berkhofer, Robert F., Jr - 1978

Random House Children's Books, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House Children's Books, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Random House Children's Books, 1978. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Random House, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York. 1978. Knopf. 1st Edition. A Few Small Mark s On Bottom Edge, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket . 0394484851. 261 pages. hardcover. . keywords: American Indian History Politics. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Columbus called them ‘Indians' because his geography was faulty. But that name and, more importantly, the images it has come to suggest have endured for five centuries, not only obscuring the true identity of the original Americans but serving as an idealogical weapon in their subjugation. Now, in this brilliant and deeply disturbing reinterpretation of the American past, Robert Berkhofer has written an impressively documented account of the self-serving stereotypes Europeans and white Americans have concocted about the 'Indian': Noble Savage or bloodthirsty redskin, he was deemed inferior in the light of western, Christian civilization and manipulated to its benefit. A thought-provoking and revelatory study of the absolute, seemingly ineradicable pervasiveness of white racism,… Leer más

Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Book has some shelf wear else Very Good condition. Dust Jacket has wear else Very Good Minus. First Edition.

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1978 Clean tight copy, Index. 261 pgs.. Illus. by Dustjacket Art By George Catlin - with 8 Pages of Photographs and Illustrations. First Edition.. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 261pp, illus., owner's notes to fep, slight shelfwear to cover, slight soiling & edgewear to dj.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good -.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. xvii, 261 pp, list of 11 b&w illustrations, acknowledgments, preface, Part I: The Idea of the Indian: Invention and Perpetuation; The Spanish Legacy of Name and Imagery; French and English Terms and Images; Significance of Indian as a General Category and Conception; Persisting Fundamental Images and Themes. Part II. From Religion to Anthropology: The Genealogy of the Scientific Image of the Indian; Christian Cosmogony and the Problem of Indian Origins; Environmentalism and the Varieties of the Human Species in Enlightenment Thought; The Idea of Progress and the State of Savagery in the History of Mankind; Evolutionism and Primitive Peoples in Nineteenth-Century Anthropology; "Scientific" Racism and Human Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Social Sciences; Cultural Anthropology and the Modern Conception of Indians. Part III. Imagery in Literature, Art, and Philosophy: The… Leer más

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 264 pp. Original yellow paper covered boards w/ white cloth spine. Title in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends slightly bumped. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.