Manifest destinies and indigenous peoples
By: edited by David Maybury-Lewis, Theodore Macdonald, and Biorn Maybury-Lewis
Contributors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Series: The David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University; David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University
Publisher: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780674033139
Subjects: Siedler; Government relations; Indigenes Volk; Manifest Destiny; Indians; Political messianism; Land tenure; Expansionspolitik; Ureinwohner; Territorial expansion; Indigenous peoples; Kolonialismus; Nationalism; History
Description: Papers presented at an interdisciplinary seminar held Apr. 7-8, 2006 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Theodore Macdonald; title: An American story? Second thoughts on manifest destiny  -- Anders Stephanson; title: The "conquest of the desert" as a trope and enactment of Argentina's manifest destiny  -- Claudia N. Briones and Walter Delrio; title: "Wild Indians," tutelary roles, and moving frontier in Amazonia: images of Indians in the birth Brazil  -- João Pacheco de Oliveira; title: Chile Mestizo; Chile Indígena  -- José Bengoa; title: National expansion and native peoples of the United States and Canada  -- Roger L. Nichols; title: Homeland and frontier  -- J. Edward Chamberlin; title: The American West and American empire  -- Richard White; title: Afterword -- Biorn Maybury-Lewis.