| 书目名称 | The Battle over America‘s Origin Story | | 副标题 | Legends, Amateurs, a | | 编辑 | Brian Regal | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Examines the many myths and legends about who ‘really’ discovered America.Connects the history of American origins to contemporary political debates.Makes use of archival sources to examine the relati | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 disc | | 出版日期 | Book 2022 | | 关键词 | theory of history; US history; Indigenous history; settler colonialism; postcolonialism | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99538-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-99540-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-99538-6 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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