How the West Was Drawn - Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West

Informationen zum Autor David Bernstein is a historian and photographer.       Klappentext David Bernstein is a visiting assistant professor of history at Denison University. ¿ Zusammenfassung ?How the West Was Drawn is a revisionist and interdisciplinary understanding of the global imperial contest for North America’s Great Plains that provides the fine details of the Pawnees’, Iowas’, and Lakotas’ geopolitical and cultural strategies in a rapidly changing world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction  Part 1: Living in Indian Country 1. Constructing Indian Country 2. Sharitarish and the Possibility of Treaties 3. Nonparticipatory Mapping  Part 2: The Rise and Fall of “Indian Country” 4. The Cultural Construction of “Indian Country” 5. Science and the Destruction of “Indian Country”  Part 3:  Reclaiming Indian Country 6. The Metaphysics of Indian Naming Conclusion Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: David Bernstein
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780803249301
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-4930-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Borderlands and Transcultural Studies; Borderlands and Transcultural; Borderlands and Transcultural Studies; Borderlands and Transcultural
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore