UID:
almahu_9949383537802882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780429320002
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0429320000
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9781000186598
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1000186598
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9781000228038
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1000228037
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9781000207316
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1000207315
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Early Modern History
Content:
"For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place"--
Note:
Introduction : Firsting and the architecture of decolonizing scholarship on the early-modern Atlantic world / Lauren Beck -- 1. John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt's erasure of Native Americans / Nate Probasco -- 2. The last of the first? Madness and the jungle in the chronicles of the Indies : Lope de Aguirre and his writing / Manuel Lucena Giraldo -- 3. Dying in their own minds : firsting and lasting in the early Jesuit work with the Tupi language in Brazil / Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá -- 4. Literacy and colonial beginnings : Inca Garcilaso's story of the letter in context / Julián Díez Torres -- 5. The grammar of inanimacy : Frances Brooke and the production of North American settler states / Rachel Bryant -- 6. Firsting and lasting in the history of science : Francisco José de Caldas and the priority dispute over hypsometry / Jorge M. Escobar -- 7. History and progress : regional identity and the useable past in Nova Scotia, 1857-1877 / Nicolas Haisell -- 8. The afterlife of settler-colonial occupation : archaeological excavation as militarization in the United States-Mexico borderlands / Claire Urbanski -- 9. American Indian discovery / Jonathan DeCoster -- 10. Unsettling Spanish Atlantic history : experiences of the colonized through visual and material culture / Lauren Beck -- 11. "This is an indigenous city" : un-firsting early representations of Vancouver / Ashley Caranto Morford -- 12. Native American contributions to democracy, Marxism, feminism, gender fluidity, and environmentalism / Bruce E. Johansen.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Firsting in the early-modern Atlantic world New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ISBN 9780367334680
Language:
English
Keywords:
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