{"product_id":"indigenous-enlightenment-9781496237309","title":"Indigenous Enlightenment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading. Protestant expatriates who opened schools within British and U.S. colonial territories between 1790 and 1850 shared the conviction that a beneficent government should promote the enlightenment of its colonial subjects. It was the aim of evangelical enlightenment to improve Indigenous peoples’ welfare through the processes of Christianization and civilization and to transform accepting individuals into virtuous citizens of the settler-colonial community. Many educators quickly discovered that their teaching efforts languished without the means to publish books in the Indigenous languages of their subject populations. While they could publish primers in English by shipping manuscripts to printers in London or Boston, books for Indigenous readers gained greater accuracy and influence when they s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIndigenous Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution to historiographical knowledge of education, missionary work, and printing from North America to the Southwest Pacific. Stuart McKee’s comparative approach brings into focus the ideals that inspired missionary education and the comparative challenges of transporting the printing technologies that complemented work in school rooms. Orthographic detail is a key feature and strength of this book.”—Gregory D. Smithers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Accession to Western Civility\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. A Cry for Books and Teachers: The Scheme of Indigenous Schooling\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Foreign Mission School\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Central School of Imerina\u003cbr\u003e 4. Charity Schools and Common Schools\u003cbr\u003e 5. \u003ci\u003ePathshalas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Learning the Indigenous Languages: Printing in the South Pacific, 1797–1836\u003cbr\u003e 6. \u003ci\u003eAko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. \u003ci\u003eHaapii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part 3. An Uneasy Conflation of Cultures: Printing in Bengal, 1775–1835\u003cbr\u003e 8. Learning to Print\u003cbr\u003e 9. Printing to Learn\u003cbr\u003e Part 4. A Civilization Gone Stagnant: Printing for the People of China, 1805–35\u003cbr\u003e 10. Under Cover\u003cbr\u003e 11. Under Contract\u003cbr\u003e Part 5. “In a Savage Country”: Printing at the U.S. Borderlands, 1825–50\u003cbr\u003e 12. Making News\u003cbr\u003e 13. Making Do\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409246069079,"sku":"9781496237309","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496237309.jpg?v=1730506126","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indigenous-enlightenment-9781496237309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}