
Reconfigurations of Native North America
An Anthology of New Perspectives
Texas Tech Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 30. January 2009
Book
Hardback
470 pages
978-0-89672-641-3 (ISBN)
Description
Implementing many of the most cutting-edge trends in contemporary indigenous studies, these seventeen original essays tackle indigenous identity, cultural perseverance, economic development, and urbanization in a wide array of American Indian and First Nations populations. The authors present and preserve indigenous voices and carefully consider native world views throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, and also address mainstream policies that influenced Native people in various eras and locales. The essays range from the specific single peoples living in well-defined spaces during discrete time periods, to the expansive broad comparative and international discussions. Yet the volumes diversity extends beyond its topical breadth. The contributors themselves - many of whom are Native Americans or members of other First Nation - speer through scholarly lenses polished in Canada, Denmark, Finland, England, Sweden, and the United States. The ensuing synthesis helps to clarify the modern complexities of analyzing indigenous pasts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Texas
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
9 maps
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89672-641-3 (9780896726413)
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Persons
John R. Wunder, professor of history and journalism at the University of Nebraska, is a leading scholar of the American West and the American legal system. He is the author of five books and the editor of the multivolume Native Americans and the Law: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on American Indian rights, Freedoms, and Sovereignty as well as series editor for TTUP's Plains Histories. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.Kurt E. Kinbacher earned his PhD in history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2006), where he was a postdoctoral researcher. He is a history instructor at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane, Washington.