{"product_id":"ethnology-and-empire-9781479842582","title":"Ethnology and Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner, The Early American Literature Book Prize\u003cbr\u003eEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about\u003cbr\u003ewords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples\u003cbr\u003eand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the\u003cbr\u003eemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research\u003cbr\u003ediscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the\u003cbr\u003eU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in\u003cbr\u003ewhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of\u003cbr\u003efiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages\u003cbr\u003egave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn literary and\u003cbr\u003eperformative settings that range from the U.S.\/Mexico borderlands to the Great\u003cbr\u003eLakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of\u003cbr\u003elearned societies in New York a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA superb work. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eEthnology and Empire demonstrates the power and flexibility of postmodern approaches to the study of colonial relationships. * American Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eAn 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\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents     Acknowledgments ix     Introduction 1     1 Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation 17     2 Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819-1821 52     3 John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism 83     4 Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion 114     5 John Russell Bartlett's Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey 145     Indian Passports 177     Notes 187     Index 229     About the Author 242\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409074987351,"sku":"9781479842582","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479842582.jpg?v=1730505347","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethnology-and-empire-9781479842582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}