Author: George Frisbie HoarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marietta (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Oration Delivered by George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, April 7, 1888
Author: George Frisbie HoarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marietta (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Winning the West with Words
Author: James Joseph BussPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806150408
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-century Anglo-Americans used language, rhetoric, and narrative to claim cultural ownership of the region that comprises present-day Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Historian James Joseph Buss borrows from literary studies, geography, and anthropology to examine images of stalwart pioneers and vanished Indians used by American settlers in portraying an empty landscape in which they established farms, towns, and “civilized” governments. He demonstrates how this now-familiar narrative came to replace a more complicated history of cooperation, adaptation, and violence between peoples of different cultures. Buss scrutinizes a wide range of sources—travel journals, captivity narratives, treaty council ceremonies, settler petitions, artistic representations, newspaper editorials, late-nineteenth-century county histories, and public celebrations such as regional fairs and centennial pageants and parades—to show how white Americans used language, metaphor, and imagery to accomplish the symbolic removal of Native peoples from the region south of the Great Lakes. Ultimately, he concludes that the popular image of the white yeoman pioneer was employed to support powerful narratives about westward expansion, American democracy, and unlimited national progress. Buss probes beneath this narrative of conquest to show the ways Indians, far from being passive, participated in shaping historical memory—and often used Anglo-Americans’ own words to subvert removal attempts. By grounding his study in place rather than focusing on a single group of people, Buss goes beyond the conventional uses of history, giving readers a new understanding not just of the history of the Midwest but of the power of creation narratives.
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Author: A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War
Author: John Bach McMasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the Civil War: 1803-1812 ... 1921
Author: John Bach McMasterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly
Author: Ohio Archæological and Historical Publications
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description