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Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New Englands original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Firsting and Lasting
• Subtitle: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England
• Author: Jean M. O'Brien
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9780816665785
• ISBN: 0816665788
• ID: 04730432
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Weight: 358 g
• Dimensions: 143 × 216 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2010

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