Author: Charles W. Jenkins
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Charles W. Jenkins
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Francis Perego Harper
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 628

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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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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.

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Category : Marine biology
Languages : en
Pages : 82

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Author: Charles W. Jenkins
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484620871
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Excerpt from Three Lectures on the Early History of the Town of Falmouth: Covering the Time From Its Settlement to 1812 Only slight verbal changes have been made in the text of the lectures. Mr. Jenkins devoted much time and careful study to the records of the town. Church and society, and also learned much town tradition from the older inhabitants information which could not be gathered now, nearly fifty years later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Jenkins Charles W
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314545883
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Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author: Francis Perego Harper
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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