Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World(English, Electronic book text, unknown)

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Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World(English, Electronic book text, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000228037 (ISBN 10) and 9781000228038 (ISBN 13).

For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place.