Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession

by Christen Mucher

Book Overview

Before American History juxtaposes Mexico City's famous carved Sun Stone with the mounded earthworks found throughout the Midwestern states of the U.S. to examine the project of settler nationalism from the 1780s to the 1840s in two North American republics usually studied separately. As the U.S. and Mexico transformed from European colonies into independent nations--and before war scarred them both--antiquarians and historians compiled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813948258
• ISBN13: 9780813948256
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"