Ethnology and Empire : : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands / / Robert Lawrence Gunn.
Winner, The Early American Literature Book PrizeEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native Am...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | America and the Long 19th Century ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 10 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation
- 2. Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819–1821
- 3. John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism
- 4. Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion
- 5. John Russell Bartlett’s Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey
- Indian Passports
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author