Author: Nathaniel Bouton
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Category : Norwalk (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Ct., in 1651
Author: Nathaniel Bouton
Publisher:
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Category : Norwalk (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Norwalk (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Firsting and Lasting
Author: Jean M. Obrien
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: William Elliot Woodward
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Denizens: A Narrative of Captain George Denison and His New England Contemporaries
Author: Katherine Dimancescu
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0989616983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Be transported back to the 17th Century! Denizens takes its readers to where history happened in England and New England. It recounts true stories about the English Civil War, the Pequot War, and King Philip's War and others about Praying Indian Villages, heirloom apples, and some of New England's oldest working farms. Travel on the high seas with Pilgrims & Puritans coming to New England on the Mayflower & Winthrop Fleet ships. Denizens engages a general audience with its true stories of life in 17th Century New England and the courageous European settlers & Native Americans who called the region home.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0989616983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Be transported back to the 17th Century! Denizens takes its readers to where history happened in England and New England. It recounts true stories about the English Civil War, the Pequot War, and King Philip's War and others about Praying Indian Villages, heirloom apples, and some of New England's oldest working farms. Travel on the high seas with Pilgrims & Puritans coming to New England on the Mayflower & Winthrop Fleet ships. Denizens engages a general audience with its true stories of life in 17th Century New England and the courageous European settlers & Native Americans who called the region home.
Reference List on Connecticut Local History
Author:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Bibliotheca Geographica & Historica, Or, A Catalogue of a Nine Days Sale of Rare & Valuable Ancient and Modern Books ...
Author: Henry Stevens
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
Book Description
From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
Book Description
From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Report
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1796
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Bibliography
Author:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Reading List for Children's Librarians
Author: Mary Floyd Williams
Publisher:
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Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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