How the West Was Drawn : Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West /
"How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West w...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Living in Indian country
- Construction Indian country
- Sharitarish and the possibility of treaties
- Non-participatory mapping
- The rise and fall of "Indian country"
- The cultural construction of "Indian country"
- Science and the destruction of "Indian country"
- Reclaiming Indian country
- The metaphysics of Indian naming
- Conclusion.