On records : Delaware Indians, colonists, and the media of history and memory /
Bridging the fields of Indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2012]
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| Summary: | Bridging the fields of Indigenous, early American, memory, and media studies, On Records illuminates the problems of communication between cultures and across generations. Andrew Newman examines several controversial episodes in the historical narrative of the Delaware (Lenape) Indians, including the stories of their primordial migration to settle a homeland spanning the Delaware and Hudson Rivers, the arrival of the Dutch and the first colonial land fraud, William Penn's founding of Pennsylvania with a Great Treaty of Peace, and the infamous 1737 Pennsylvania Walking Purchase. Newman demonstrates that the quest for ideal records--authentic, authoritative, and objective, anchored in the past yet intelligible to the present--has haunted historical actors and scholars alike. Yet without "proof," how can we know what really happened? On Records articulates surprising connections among colonial documents, recorded oral traditions, material and visual cultures. Its comprehensive, probing analysis of historical evidence yields a multi-faceted understanding of events and reveals new insights into the divergent memories of a shared past. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes notes, bibliographical references (pages 239-270), and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780803244917 0803244916 0803239866 9780803239869 1283687747 9781283687744 |