Before American history : : nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession / / Christen Mucher.
"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 u...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Charlottesville : : University of Virginia Press,, [2022] |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Writing the early Americas
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.