History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2004
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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An examination of the place of Native Americans in 19th century intellectual life. Annotated. Bibliography. Index. 257 pages.
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- Title
- History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Steven Conn
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0226114945
- ISBN 13
- 9780226114941
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Academic, History
History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of the Indian compelled Americans to abandon older explanatory frameworks for sovereignty like the Bible and classical literature and instead develop new ones. Through their engagement with Native American language and culture, American intellectuals helped shape and define the emerging fields of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and art. But more important, the questions posed by the presence of the Indian in the United States forced Americans to confront the meaning of history itself, both that of Native Americans and their own: how it should be studied, what drove its processes, and where it might ultimately lead. The encounter with Native Americans, Conn argues, helped give rise to a distinctly American historical consciousness.
A work of enormous scope and intellect, History's Shadow will speak to anyone interested in Native Americans and their profound influence on our cultural imagination.
“History’s Shadow is an intelligent and comprehensive look at the place of Native Americans in Euro-American’s intellectual history. . . . Examining literature, painting, photography, ethnology, and anthropology, Conn mines the written record to discover how non-Native Americans thought about Indians.” —Joy S. Kasson, Los Angeles Times
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