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

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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.

Author: Henry Morris
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Category : King Philip's War, 1675-1676
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Author: William Clogston
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Sacvan Bercovitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521098410
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Over the last two decades a major revaluation has been taking place of the colonial Puritan imagination. With the growth of interest in early American literature has come increasing recognition of its quality and a better understanding of its place in the continuity of American culture. However, much of the best critical work to date has been published as articles in scholarly journals, and in bringing together for the first time the best work in this growing field the present anthology fills a number of important needs. It is at once a valuabale and accessible introduction for students, a summing-up of a new enterprise, and a guide for further studies.

Author: Alfred Small Manson
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: Henry Morris
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Category : King Philip's War, 1675-1676
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Berkshire Athenaeum and Museum
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: Iowa. General Assembly
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 1484

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Author: State Library of Iowa
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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