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History's shadow [electronic resource] : Native Americans and historical consciousness in the nineteenth century / Steven Conn.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 276 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780226115115 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226115119 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: History's shadow.DDC classification:
  • 973.04/97 22
LOC classification:
  • E77 .C75 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Native Americans and the problem of history, part 1 -- Images of history : Indians in American art -- Fade to silence : Indians and the study of language -- The past is underground : archaeology and the search for Indian history -- The art and science of describing and classifying : the triumph of anthropology -- Native Americans and the problem of history, part 2.
Summary: Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of.
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ელ.რესურსი ელ.რესურსი ეროვნული სამეცნიერო ბიბლიოთეკა 1 94(=8) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-270) and index.

Native Americans and the problem of history, part 1 -- Images of history : Indians in American art -- Fade to silence : Indians and the study of language -- The past is underground : archaeology and the search for Indian history -- The art and science of describing and classifying : the triumph of anthropology -- Native Americans and the problem of history, part 2.

Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of.

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