Contemporary Ancestors of de Bry, Hobbes, and Milton.

By means of rhetorically patterned negation that is central to early modern proto-evolutionary, Euro-colonial discourses, indigenous American societies appear historically remote as well as culturally deficient. Yet if Americans are the contemporary ancestors of early modern Europeans, what place, i...

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Published in:University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 837 - 876
Main Author: Nyquist, Mary
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press Summer2008
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