{"product_id":"ethnology-and-empire-languages-literature-and-the-making-of-the-north-american-borderlands-hardback-9781479842582","title":"Ethnology and Empire; Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands (Hardback) 9781479842582","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEthnology and Empire\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLanguages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Lawrence Gunn (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479842582\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 October 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 10 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A superb work. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\" (Choice) \"Ethnology and Empire demonstrates the power and flexibility of postmodern approaches to the study of colonial relationships.\" (American Quarterly) \"An original, beautifully written book on the rapidly changing ideas about language in American culture during the early nineteenth century. Ethnology and Empireengages the social history of the borderlands and linguistics to introduce a new way of looking at the formation of ideas about race and ethnography in the antebellum period. A fascinating read.\" - Kirsten Silva Gruesz,author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing \"Through masterful engagement with nineteenth century literary production and ethnology, Robert Gunn underscores how the cultural work of linguistic contact is vital to our understanding of the ideologies of empire that slowly gained force in the evolving U.S. nation-state.Ethnology and Empiremakes a significant contribution in the hemispheric turn in American studies, threading together little-known histories that advance the field and push our thinking about borderlands in innovative ways.\" - Robert David Aguirre,author of Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, The Early American Literature Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about\u003cbr\u003e words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples\u003cbr\u003e and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the\u003cbr\u003e emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research\u003cbr\u003e discipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the\u003cbr\u003e U.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in\u003cbr\u003e which relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of\u003cbr\u003e fiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages\u003cbr\u003e gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In literary and\u003cbr\u003e performative settings that range from the U.S.\/Mexico borderlands to the Great\u003cbr\u003e Lakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of\u003cbr\u003e learned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models\u003cbr\u003e an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication\u003cbr\u003e practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a\u003cbr\u003e transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative\u003cbr\u003e impacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines\u003cbr\u003e U.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric\u003cbr\u003e American literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591114486040,"sku":"9781479842582","price":54.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/ethnology-and-empire-languages-literature-and-the-making-of-the-north-american-borderlands-hardback-9781479842582","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}