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Category : Sheffield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Centennial Celebration of the Town of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass., June 18th and 19th, 1876
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Category : Sheffield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Publisher:
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Category : Sheffield (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Centennial Celebration of the Town of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass.
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385489083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385489083
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Centennial Celebration of the Town of Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass., June 18th and 19th, 1876
Author: Sheffield (Mass.)
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Category : Sheffield (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Sheffield (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Catalogue of the Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut
Author: Norfolk Library (Norfolk, Conn.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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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.
A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The Berkshire Genealogist
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Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Gazetteer of Berkshire County, Mass., 1725-1885
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Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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