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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583592003321

Autore

Mucher Christen

Titolo

Before American history : nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession / / Christen Mucher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2022

Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , [2022]

ISBN

9780813948263

0813948266

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Writing the early Americas

Disciplina

970.0

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Historiography

Nationalism and historiography - United States

Nationalism and historiography - Mexico

Indians of North America - Antiquities - Collectors and collecting - History

Settler colonialism - United States - History

America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ofering the "Indian" archive -- Storied lands of the "Old West" -- Mexico antiguo through americano eyes -- Nationalist science and the chronology of disposession -- Removal in the antiquarian archive -- An American Babylon in the Mexican Republic -- Epilogue: after American history.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to erase and denigrate Native peoples, a legacy that continues when we repeat these narratives"--