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Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World

By Beck , Lauren;

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781000228038, 9781000207316, 9780367334680, 9780429320002
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3161305 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2024-05-01 16:18:31

Description

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, 14921900. 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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