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Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
Gregory Evans Dowd
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Description for Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
Hardback. They were all, by definition, groundless, but they were not all false, and they influenced the classic issues of historical inquiry: the formation of alliances, the making of revolutions, the expropriation of labor and resources, and the origins of war. Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture. Num Pages: 408 pages, 9, 2 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. .
Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers-hardly immune as a group to the disease-routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor-spread by colonists and Native Americans alike-ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they ... Read more
Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers-hardly immune as a group to the disease-routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor-spread by colonists and Native Americans alike-ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Early America: History, Context, Culture
Condition
New
Weight
678g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421418650
SKU
V9781421418650
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About Gregory Evans Dowd
Gregory Evans Dowd is a professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815 and War under Heaven: Pontiac, the Indian Nations, and the British Empire.
Reviews for Groundless: Rumors, Legends, and Hoaxes on the Early American Frontier
Groundless is satisfyingly grounded. Dowd has eavesdropped credibly as well as prodigously, listening to the many voices across time whether recorded safely on microfilm or in the inky scribbles in the National Archives at Kew.
Times Literary Supplement
Dowd's work has much methodological import for historians of early America and beyond who will certainly benefit from the approach ... Read more
Times Literary Supplement
Dowd's work has much methodological import for historians of early America and beyond who will certainly benefit from the approach ... Read more