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Ethnology and empire : languages, literature, and the making of the North American borderlands /

Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gunn, Robert Lawrence (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:America and the long 19th century.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Philologies of race: ethnological linguistics and novelistic representation
  • Empire, sign languages, and the long expedition, 1819-1821
  • John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the linguistic politics of Pan-Indianism
  • Connecting borderlands: Native networks and the Fredonian rebellion
  • John Russell Bartlett's literary borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S.-Mexico war, and the United States Boundary Survey
  • Indian passports.