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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458894103321

Autore

Round Phillip H. <1958->

Titolo

Removable type [[electronic resource] ] : histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880 / / Phillip H. Round

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010

ISBN

1-4696-0634-8

0-8078-9947-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

028.089/97073

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Books and reading

Books and reading - United States - History

Indians of North America - Government relations

Literacy - Social aspects - United States

Indians of North America - Cultural assimilation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The coming of the book to Indian country -- Being and becoming literate in the eighteenth-century native northeast -- New and uncommon means -- Public writing I : "to feel interest in our welfare" -- Public writing II : the Cherokee, a "reading and intellectual people" -- Proprietary authorship -- The culture of reprinting -- Indigenous illustration.

Sommario/riassunto

Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880