Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England

by Jean M. O'Brien

Book Overview

Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England's original inhabitants,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816665788
• ISBN13: 9780816665785
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"