Author: Nehemiah CleavelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Topsfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
An Address Delivered at Topsfield in Massachusetts, August 28, 1850
Author: Nehemiah CleavelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Topsfield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The North American Review
Author: Jared SparksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.
The North American Review
Author: Firsting and Lasting
Author: Jean M. ObrienPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452915253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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. InFirsting 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 land and rights. Drawing on more than six hundred local histories from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island written between 1820 and 1880, as well as censuses, monuments, and accounts of historical pageants and commemorations, O’Brien explores how these narratives inculcated the myth of Indian extinction, a myth that has stubbornly remained in the American consciousness. In order to convince themselves that the Indians had vanished despite their continued presence, O’Brien finds that local historians and their readers embraced notions of racial purity rooted in the century’s scientific racism and saw living Indians as “mixed” and therefore no longer truly Indian. Adaptation to modern life on the part of Indian peoples was used as further evidence of their demise. Indians did not—and have not—accepted this effacement, and O’Brien details how Indians have resisted their erasure through narratives of their own. These debates and the rich and surprising history uncovered in O’Brien’s work continue to have a profound influence on discourses about race and indigenous rights.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 960
Book Description
Catalogue of the American Books in the Library of the British Museum at Christmas MDCCCLVI.
Author: Henry StevensPublisher: London : C. Whittingham
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Dictionary of Books, relating to America, From its Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 375252121X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
A Dictionary of Books Relating to America
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description