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The Battle over America's Origin Story

Legends, Amateurs, and Professional Historiographers

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Palgrave Macmillan


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This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. 


Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.
Pages
325 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2022-05-06
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030995379
EAN PDF
9783030995386
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3
Nombre pages imprimables
32
Taille du fichier
3574 Ko
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137,14 €
EAN EPUB
9783030995386
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
3
Nombre pages imprimables
32
Taille du fichier
11622 Ko
Ce livre est accessible aux handicaps Voir les informations sur l'accessibilité
Prix
137,14 €

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