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Seed Patricia |
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American pentimento [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of Indians and the pursuit of riches / / Patricia Seed |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2001 |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Indians of North America - Land tenure |
Indians - Colonization |
Indians - Civil rights |
Land tenure - Government policy - America - History |
Right of property - America - History |
Europe Colonies America Administration |
America Colonization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; List of Maps; Preface; American Pentimento: An Introduction; 1 Owning Land by Labor, Money, and Treaty; 2 Imagining a Waste Land; or, Why Indians Vanish; 3 Gendering Native Americans: Hunters as Anglo-America's Partial Fiction; 4 Ownership of Mineral Riches and the Spanish Need for Labor; 5 Tribute and Social Humiliation: The Cost of Preserving Native Farmlands; 6 Cannibals: Iberia's Partial Truth; 7 Sustaining Political Identities: The Moral Boundary between Natives and Colonizers; 8 Indians in Portuguese America; 9 Fast Forward: The Impact of Independence on Colonial Structures |
10 Continuities: Colonial Language and Images TodayConclusion. No Perfect World: Contemporary Aboriginal Communities' Human and Resource Rights; Appendix: On the Names of Some North American Aboriginal Peoples; Notes; Index |
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An illuminating examination of colonization's ongoing cultural legacy. Patricia Seed examines how European countries, primarily England, Spain, and Portugal, differed in their colonization of the Americas, with the English appropriating land, while the Spanish and Portuguese |
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attempted to eliminate ""barbarous"" religious behavior and used indigenous labor to take mineral resources. Seed also demonstrates how these antiquated cultural and legal vocabularies are embedded in our languages, popular cultures, and legal systems, and how they are responsible for current representations and treatment |
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UNINA9910484492303321 |
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The Mathematics of Language : 10th and 11th Biennial Conference, MOL 10, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28-30, 2007 and MOL 11, Bielefeld, Germany, August 20-21, 2009, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Christian Ebert, Gerhard Jäger, Jens Michaelis |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2010 |
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[1st ed. 2010.] |
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1 online resource (VIII, 297 p. 55 illus.) |
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, , 2945-9141 ; ; 6149 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EbertChristian |
JagerGerhard |
MichaelisJens |
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Compilers (Computer programs) |
Computer programming |
Computer science |
Machine theory |
Computer science - Mathematics |
Discrete mathematics |
Compilers and Interpreters |
Programming Techniques |
Theory of Computation |
Formal Languages and Automata Theory |
Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation |
Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Dependency Structures Derived from Minimalist Grammars -- Deforesting Logical Form -- On the Probability Distribution of Typological Frequencies -- A Polynomial Time Algorithm for Parsing with the Bounded Order Lambek Calculus -- LC Graphs for the Lambek Calculus with Product -- Proof-Theoretic Semantics for a Natural Language Fragment -- Some Interdefinability Results for Syntactic Constraint Classes -- Sortal Equivalence of Bare Grammars -- Deriving Syntactic Properties of Arguments and Adjuncts from Neo-Davidsonian Semantics -- On Monadic Second-Order Theories of Multidominance Structures -- The Equivalence of Tree Adjoining Grammars and Monadic Linear Context-Free Tree Grammars -- A Formal Foundation for A and A-bar Movement -- Without Remnant Movement, MGs Are Context-Free -- The Algebra of Lexical Semantics -- Phonological Interpretation into Preordered Algebras -- Relational Semantics for the Lambek-Grishin Calculus -- Intersecting Adjectives in Syllogistic Logic -- Creation Myths of GenerativeGrammar and the Mathematics of Syntactic Structures -- On Languages Piecewise Testable in the Strict Sense -- A Note on the Complexity of Abstract Categorial Grammars -- Almost All Complex Quantifiers Are Simple -- Constituent Structure Sets I. |
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Contains a selection of papers presented at the 10th and 11th Meeting of the Association for Mathematics of Language, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA in July 2007 and in Bielefeld, Germany, in August 2009. This title reflects a range of theoretical topics relating to language and computation. |
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