Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World

Herausgeber: Beck, Lauren

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9781032092065
• ISBN-10: 1032092068
• Artikelnr.: 62151281

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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