The Norwich Jubilee

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Category : Mummies
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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The Norwich Jubilee

The Norwich Jubilee PDF Author:
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Category : Mummies
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Firsting and Lasting

Firsting and Lasting PDF Author: Jean M. Obrien
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452915253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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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.

Catalogue of the Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut

Catalogue of the Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut PDF Author: Norfolk Library (Norfolk, Conn.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Bulletin

Bulletin PDF Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Connecticut, a Bibliography of Its History

Connecticut, a Bibliography of Its History PDF Author: Committee for a New England Bibliography
Publisher: Hanover, NH : University Press of New England
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 846

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Bibliotheca Americana

Bibliotheca Americana PDF Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Bibliotheca Americana

Bibliotheca Americana PDF Author: Maggs Bros
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1176

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American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949

American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 PDF Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati

Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati PDF Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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American Signed Bindings Through 1876

American Signed Bindings Through 1876 PDF Author: Willman Spawn
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Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 310

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"Describes and illustrates 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations, from the 1750s through 1876. Identifies 233 binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns from Maine to New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. Provides brief descriptions of bindings and explanatory notes for many binders"--Provided by publisher.