The Columbian covenant
Subtitle: race and the writing of American history
By: James Carson
Edition: First edition.
Series: Palgrave pivot; Palgrave pivot
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781137438621; 9781137438645; 9781137438638
Subjects: Historiography; Race relations
Description: When scholars use present-day racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical significations of skin color into a transhistorical and essential notion of race that implicates their work in the histories that they endeavor to study. Such a constant and conventional reliance on the language of race means that in many ways the practice of United States history reproduces the same racial categories it seeks to critique, displace, and demolish.--Provided by publisher
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imperial designs; title: Colonial and early national foundations; title: The modern professionals; title: Other ways of seeing and doing.