Vient de paraître Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World sous la direction de Lauren Beck chez Routledge

Vient de paraître Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World sous la direction de Lauren Beck chez Routledge, coll. "Routledge Research in Early Modern History", 2019, 268 p. ISBN : 9780367334680 Prix : 115 £ (existe aussi en version électronique).

"For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence, movements, knowledges, and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world, 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans, while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place."

Lauren Beck holds the Canada Research Chair in Intercultural Encounter and is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Mount Allison University.