Author: Jeremiah Colburn
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts ...
Author: Jeremiah Colburn
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Bibliography of the Local History of Massachusetts. (Reprinted from the New-England Historical and Genealogical Register.).
Author: Jeremiah COLBURN
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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History of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Embracing a Comprehensive History of the County from Its First Settlement to the Present Time, with a History and Description of Its Cities and Towns
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Category : Worcester County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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Category : Worcester County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 754
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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 History of the County of Worcester, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Etc
Author: Peter WHITNEY (the elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
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History of Worcester County, Massachusetts
Author: Duane Hamilton Hurd
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Category : Worcester County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Category : Worcester County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE TOWN OF LEICESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, DURING THE FIRST CENTURY FROM IT SETTLEMENT
Author: EMORY WASHRURN
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Classified Catalogue
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Languages : en
Pages : 1112
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Pages : 1112
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Firsting and Lasting
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.
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.