Author: Providence (R.I.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Ceremonies at the Unveiling of the Monument to Roger Williams
Author: Providence (R.I.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
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.
The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, as Seen in Its Literature
Author: Henry Martyn DexterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
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Author: Masonic Catalogue of the Library of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Masons, January 1st, 1880
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385428629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: A-L
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Treasurer's Report ...
Author: Brookline (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brookline (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
Roger Williams' Dream for America
Author: Donald SkaggsPublisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Roger Williams'Dream for America deals with Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island. Thoroughly researched, the book examines his obsession to build the Zion that the ancient prophets predicted would flourish in the latterdays. But preventing God from establishing the Holy City, Williams contended, was religious intolerance. The hope of the world was America where the seeds of freedom would be sown, nourished, and disseminated worldwide. Then God would send messengers from heaven who would call living apostles to send missionaries worldwide with their message of salvation. This book explores America's amazing response to Williams' dream that America would be the beacon of freedom and God's center of operations for the redemption of Zion.
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Author: Public Library of BrooklinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description