Colonizing the Past: Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing

by Edward Watts

Book Overview

After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common, deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had been conquerors yet colonials, now politically independent yet culturally subordinate to European history and traditions. To resolve these paradoxes, some early republic "historians" went so far as to reconstruct pre-Columbian, transatlantic adventures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813943876
• ISBN13: 9780813943879
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"