Overview

For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place.

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Author:   Lauren Beck
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.521kg
ISBN:  

9780367334680

ISBN 10:   0367334682
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   24 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Firsting and the Architecture of Decolonizing Scholarship on the Early-Modern Atlantic World Part I: The Foundations for Firsting in Historiography and Literature 1. John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt’s Erasure of Native Americans 2. The Last of the First? Madness and the Jungle in the Chronicles of the Indies: Lope de Aguirre and His Writing 3. Dying in their Own Minds: Firsting and Lasting in the Early Jesuit Work with the Tupi Language in Brazil 4. Literacy and Colonial Beginnings: Inca Garcilaso’s Story of the Letter in Context Part II: Modernity and Unfamiliarity as Firsting Principles 5. The Grammar of Inanimacy: Frances Brooke and the Production of North American Settler States 6. Firsting and Lasting in the History of Science: Francisco José de Caldas and the Priority Dispute over Hypsometry 7. History and Progress: Regional Identity and the Useable Past in Nova Scotia, 1857-1877 8. The Afterlife of Settler-Colonial Occupation: Archaeological Excavation as Militarization in the United States-Mexico Borderlands Part III: Un-Firsting the West 9. American Indian Discovery 10. Unsettling Spanish Atlantic History: Experiences of the Colonized Through Visual and Material Culture 11. ""This Is an Indigenous City"": Un-Firsting Early Representations of Vancouver 12. Native American Contributions to Democracy, Marxism, Feminism, Gender Fluidity, and Environmentalism"

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A valuable, trendsetting collection for all college libraries. -R. Berleant-Schiller, emerita, University of Connecticut, Highly Recommended CHOICE

"""A valuable, trendsetting collection for all college libraries."" -R. Berleant-Schiller, emerita, University of Connecticut, Highly Recommended CHOICE"

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Lauren Beck holds the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University.

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