Title:
Removable type : histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880 / Phillip H. Round.
Author:
Round, Phillip H., 1958-
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Call Number:
E98.B65 R68 2010
Abstract:
Spanning a two-hundred-year period, examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books, exploring how Native Americans used the printed word to preserve their culture and to defend themselves from the actions of the United States government.
ISBN:
9780807833902
9780807871201
Physical Description:
xii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
The coming of the book to Indian country -- Being and becoming literate in the eighteenth-century native northeast -- New and uncommon means -- Public writing I : "to feel interest in our welfare" -- Public writing II : the Cherokee, a "reading and intellectual people" -- Proprietary authorship -- The culture of reprinting -- Indigenous illustration.
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