Before American history : nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession / Christen Mucher.

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"This book argues that the current understanding of North America's past was created as a tool of nationalism, and that it required the misappropriation of Indigenous histories. In the United States and Mexico, the Indigenous past was repurposed as American history while at the same time used to era...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Writing the early Americas.
Main Author: Mucher, Christen (Author)
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Writing the early Americas.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Historiography.
Nationalism and historiography > United States.
Nationalism and historiography > Mexico.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > History.
Settler colonialism > United States > History.
America > Antiquities.
Nationalisme et historiographie > États-Unis.
Nationalisme et historiographie > Mexique.
Amérique > Antiquités.
Antiquities.
Indians of North America > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting.
Indians of North America > Historiography.
Nationalism and historiography.
Settler colonialism.
America.
Mexico.
United States.
American antiquity
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxii, 402 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Variant Title:
Nationalist mythmaking and indigenous dispossession
Format: Book
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