Firsting in the early-modern Atlantic world:

For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence,...

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Other Authors: Beck, Lauren (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxon Routledge 2019
Series:Routledge research in early modern history
Routledge research in early modern history
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Summary:For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780429320002
0429320000
9781000186598
1000186598

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