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Colonizing the Past : Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (293 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813943886
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Colonizing the PastDDC classification:
  • 810.93587001
LOC classification:
  • PS217.I47 .W388 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Primordial Nation -- 1. Welsh Indians in the Early Republic -- 2. The Lost Tribes and the Found Nation -- 3. White Mound Builders and the Lessons of Prehistory -- 4. Dwarf Epics and the Ancient Irish -- 5. The Norse Forefathers of the American Empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: By challenging the rhetoric of primordialism and empire building, dissenting writers from Washington Irving to Mark Twain exposed the crimes of conquest and white Americans' marginality as ex-colonials.
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Primordial Nation -- 1. Welsh Indians in the Early Republic -- 2. The Lost Tribes and the Found Nation -- 3. White Mound Builders and the Lessons of Prehistory -- 4. Dwarf Epics and the Ancient Irish -- 5. The Norse Forefathers of the American Empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

By challenging the rhetoric of primordialism and empire building, dissenting writers from Washington Irving to Mark Twain exposed the crimes of conquest and white Americans' marginality as ex-colonials.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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