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America and the Long 19th Century Ser.: Ethnology and Empire : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands by Robert Lawrence Gunn (2015, Trade Paperback)

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Winner, The Early American Literature Book Prize 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 ......

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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
1479849057
ISBN-13
9781479849055
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Author
Robert Lawrence Gunn
Publication Name
Ethnology and Empire : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Series
America and the Long 19th Century Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz

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Series Volume Number
6
Lc Classification Number
P35.5.N7g86 2015
Reviews
Ethnology and Empire demonstrates the power and flexibility of postmodern approaches to the study of colonial relationships., An original, beautifully written book on the rapidly changing ideas about language in American culture during the early nineteenth century. Ethnology and Empireengages the social history of the borderlands and linguistics to introduce a new way of looking at the formation of ideas about race and ethnography in the antebellum period. A fascinating read., "Ethnology and Empire demonstrates the power and flexibility of postmodern approaches to the study of colonial relationships."- American Quarterly, "Through masterful engagement with nineteenth century literary production and ethnology, Robert Gunn underscores how the cultural work of linguistic contact is vital to our understanding of the ideologies of empire that slowly gained force in the evolving U.S. nation-state. Ethnology and Empire makes a significant contribution in the hemispheric turn in American studies, threading together little-known histories that advance the field and push our thinking about borderlands in innovative ways."-Robert David Aguirre,author of Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture, "An original, beautifully written book on the rapidly changing ideas about language in American culture during the early nineteenth century. Ethnology and Empire engages the social history of the borderlands and linguistics to introduce a new way of looking at the formation of ideas about race and ethnography in the antebellum period. A fascinating read."-Kirsten Silva Gruesz,author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing, Through masterful engagement with nineteenth century literary production and ethnology, Robert Gunn underscores how the cultural work of linguistic contact is vital to our understanding of the ideologies of empire that slowly gained force in the evolving U.S. nation-state.Ethnology and Empiremakes a significant contribution in the hemispheric turn in American studies, threading together little-known histories that advance the field and push our thinking about borderlands in innovative ways.
Table of Content
Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation 17 2 Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819-1821 52 3 John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism 83 4 Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion 114 5 John Russell Bartlett's Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey 145 Indian Passports 177 Notes 187 Index 229 About the Author 242
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
Native American Languages, Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / General, Native American
Lccn
2015-015615
Dewey Decimal
306.440972/1
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science

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