This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through which Euro-settlers can be un-firsted, making space for Indigenous experiences in western scholarship.
This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through which Euro-settlers can be un-firsted, making space for Indigenous experiences in western scholarship.
Lauren Beck holds the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University.
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Introduction: Firsting and the Architecture of Decolonizing Scholarship on the Early-Modern Atlantic World Part I: The Foundations for Firsting in Historiography and Literature 1. John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt's Erasure of Native Americans 2. The Last of the First? Madness and the Jungle in the Chronicles of the Indies: Lope de Aguirre and His Writing 3. Dying in their Own Minds: Firsting and Lasting in the Early Jesuit Work with the Tupi Language in Brazil 4. Literacy and Colonial Beginnings: Inca Garcilaso's Story of the Letter in Context Part II: Modernity and Unfamiliarity as Firsting Principles 5. The Grammar of Inanimacy: Frances Brooke and the Production of North American Settler States 6. Firsting and Lasting in the History of Science: Francisco José de Caldas and the Priority Dispute over Hypsometry 7. History and Progress: Regional Identity and the Useable Past in Nova Scotia, 1857-1877 8. The Afterlife of Settler-Colonial Occupation: Archaeological Excavation as Militarization in the United States-Mexico Borderlands Part III: Un-Firsting the West 9. American Indian Discovery 10. Unsettling Spanish Atlantic History: Experiences of the Colonized Through Visual and Material Culture 11. "This Is an Indigenous City": Un-Firsting Early Representations of Vancouver 12. Native American Contributions to Democracy, Marxism, Feminism, Gender Fluidity, and Environmentalism
Introduction: Firsting and the Architecture of Decolonizing Scholarship on the Early-Modern Atlantic World Part I: The Foundations for Firsting in Historiography and Literature 1. John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt's Erasure of Native Americans 2. The Last of the First? Madness and the Jungle in the Chronicles of the Indies: Lope de Aguirre and His Writing 3. Dying in their Own Minds: Firsting and Lasting in the Early Jesuit Work with the Tupi Language in Brazil 4. Literacy and Colonial Beginnings: Inca Garcilaso's Story of the Letter in Context Part II: Modernity and Unfamiliarity as Firsting Principles 5. The Grammar of Inanimacy: Frances Brooke and the Production of North American Settler States 6. Firsting and Lasting in the History of Science: Francisco José de Caldas and the Priority Dispute over Hypsometry 7. History and Progress: Regional Identity and the Useable Past in Nova Scotia, 1857-1877 8. The Afterlife of Settler-Colonial Occupation: Archaeological Excavation as Militarization in the United States-Mexico Borderlands Part III: Un-Firsting the West 9. American Indian Discovery 10. Unsettling Spanish Atlantic History: Experiences of the Colonized Through Visual and Material Culture 11. "This Is an Indigenous City": Un-Firsting Early Representations of Vancouver 12. Native American Contributions to Democracy, Marxism, Feminism, Gender Fluidity, and Environmentalism
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