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Author:

O'Rourke, David K.

Title:

How America's first settlers invented chattel slavery : dehumanizing native Americans and Africans with language, laws, guns, and religion / David K. O'Rourke.

Publisher:

Peter Lang,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

210 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--North America--History.
Indians, Treatment of--North America--History.
Africans--North America--Social conditions.
Spaniards--North America--History.
English--North America--History.
Difference (Psychology)--History.
Christianity and politics--North America--History.
North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North America--Ethnic relations.
North America--Religion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.

Contents:

Language, metaphor and the making of the other -- Pilgrims and visionaries -- The prickly preacher of Hispaniola -- The merchants of Venice and Visby -- The householder of Zacatecas -- The seer of Santa Fe, the iconoclast of Atenango -- Coercion and legitimacy on the banks of the Rio Grande -- Native resistance and Spanish repression -- Husbanding the hideous wilderness -- Stinking fumes and fragrant profits -- The siren Calafia -- The timid plowboy and the periwigged folk -- Laborers in the mystic vineyard.

Series:

Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics, 0893-6935 ; v. 56

ISBN:

9780820468143 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0820468142 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)52301540

LCCN:

2003011201

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)