Removable type : histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880

Round, Phillip H. 1958- (Author).

Summary: In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains, Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism.

Record details

ISBN: 0807833908
ISBN: 9780807833902
ISBN: 0807833908
ISBN: 9780807871201
ISBN: 0807871206
Physical Description: print
xii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The coming of the book to Indian country -- Being and becoming literate in the eighteenth-century native northeast -- New and uncommon means -- Public writing I : "to feel interest in our welfare" -- Public writing II : the Cherokee, a "reading and intellectual people" -- Proprietary authorship -- The culture of reprinting -- Indigenous illustration.