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1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Cornell paperbacks
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Cornell paperbacks.
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| Note |
Based on papers presented at a conference held in June 1994 at the University of Pennsylvania, sponsored by the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Postcolonial theory and early America : an approach from the Caribbean / Peter Hulme -- What's colonial about colonial America? / Michael Warner -- The native translator as critic : a Nahua playwright's interpretive practice / Louise M. Burkhart -- Dissent and the frontier of translation : Roger William's A key into the language of America / Anne G. Myles -- The Inca's witches : gender and the cultural work of colonization in seventeenth-century Peru / Irene Silverblatt -- Mestizo dreams : transculturation and heterogeneity in Inca Garcilaso de la Vega / José Antonio Mazzotti -- From "religion and society" to practices : the new religious history / David D. Hall -- What did Christianity do for Joseph Johnson? : a Mohegan preacher and his community / Laura J. Murray -- War, the state, and religious norms in "Coromantee" thought : the ideology of an African American nation / John K. Thornton -- Consolidating national masculinity : scientific discourse and race in the post-revolutionary United States / Dana D. Nelson -- Secret selves, credible personas : the problematics of trust and public display in the writing of eighteenth-century Philadelphia merchants / Toby L. Ditz -- Black gothic : the shadowy origins of the American bourgeoisie / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Bodies of illusion : portraits, people, and the construction of memory / Margaretta M. Lovell -- A criminal is being beaten : the politics of punishment and the history of the body / Michael Meranze -- Massacred language : courtroom performance in eighteenth-century Boston / Robert Blair St. George -- "Neither male nor female" : Jemima Wilkinson and the politics of gender in post-revolutionary America / Susan Juster -- The genders of nationalism : patriotic violence, patriotic sentiment in the performances of Deborah Sampson Gannettt / Sandra M. Gustafson. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
America -- Colonization -- Historiography -- Congresses.
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America. |
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Colonization. |
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Historiography. |
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America -- Colonization -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Social aspects. |
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Congresses.
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America -- History -- To 1810 -- Congresses.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1810 |
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Culture diffusion -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Culture diffusion. |
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Culture conflict -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Culture conflict. |
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Intercultural communication -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Intercultural communication. |
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Acculturation -- America -- History -- Congresses.
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Acculturation. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
St. George, Robert Blair.
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Possible pasts. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2000 0801433444 (DLC) 99089817 (OCoLC)43118304 |
| ISBN |
9781501717864 (electronic book) |
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1501717863 (electronic book) |
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0801433444 |
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9780801433443 |
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0801483921 |
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9780801483929 |
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