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16%OFFSean P. Harvey - Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation (Harvard Historical Studies) - 9780674289932 - V9780674289932
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Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation (Harvard Historical Studies)

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Description for Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation (Harvard Historical Studies) Hardcover. Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites' theories of an "Indian mind" inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government's efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 330 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; CFF; HBJK; HBTB; JFFJ; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 245 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.

Sean Harvey explores the morally entangled territory of language and race in this intellectual history of encounters between whites and Native Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Misunderstandings about the differences between European and indigenous American languages strongly influenced whites’ beliefs about the descent and capabilities of Native Americans, he shows. These beliefs would play an important role in the subjugation of Native peoples as the United States pursued its “manifest destiny” of westward expansion.

Over time, the attempts of whites to communicate with Indians gave rise to theories linking language and race. Scholars maintained that language ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674289932
SKU
V9780674289932
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About Sean P. Harvey
Sean P. Harvey is Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University.

Reviews for Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to the Reservation (Harvard Historical Studies)
An impressive book that demonstrates the importance of American thinking about the New World’s indigenous languages. Harvey argues convincingly that intellectuals, policymakers, and missionaries used linguistic theory to buttress American racialism against Indians and to justify Indian dispossession and assaults on Indian culture. Native Tongues is notable in considering Indians not just as objects of white study, but as participants ... Read more

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