David Bernstein

How the West Was Drawn

Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

¿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.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781496224927
• ISBN-10: 1496224922
• Artikelnr.: 60979366

Autorenporträt

David Bernstein is a historian and photographer.      

Inhaltsangabe

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