The Battle Over America's Origin Story: Legends, Amateurs, and Professional Historiographers

by Brian Regal

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This book examines the legends of who 'really' discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3030995372

ISBN13:9783030995379

Release Date:May 2022

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:325 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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