Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World (Paperback, 1)

Introduction: Firsting and the Architecture of Decolonizing Scholarship on the Early-Modern Atlantic World Lauren BeckPart I: The Foundations for Firsting in Historiography and Literature1. John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt’s Erasure of Native AmericansNate Probasco2. The Last of the First? Madness and the Jungle in the Chronicles of the Indies: Lope de Aguirre and His WritingManuel Lucena Giraldo3. Dying in their Own Minds: Firsting and Lasting in the Early Jesuit Work with the Tupi Language in BrazilVivien Kogut Lessa de Sa4. Literacy and Colonial Beginnings: Inca Garcilaso’s Story of the Letter in Context Julian Diez TorresPart II: Modernity and Unfamiliarity as Firsting Principles5. The Grammar of Inanimacy: Frances Brooke and the Production of North American Settler StatesRachel Bryant6. Firsting and Lasting in the History of Science: Francisco Jose de Caldas and the Priority Dispute over HypsometryJorge M. Escobar7. History and Progress: Regional Identity and the Useable Past in Nova Scotia, 1857-1877 Nicolas Haisell8. The Afterlife of Settler-Colonial Occupation: Archaeological Excavation as Militarization in the United States-Mexico BorderlandsClaire UrbanskiPart III: Un-Firsting the West9. American Indian DiscoveryJonathan DeCoster10. Unsettling Spanish Atlantic History: Experiences of the Colonized Through Visual and Material CultureLauren Beck11. "This Is an Indigenous City": Un-Firsting Early Representations of VancouverAshley Caranto Morford12. Native American Contributions to Democracy, Marxism, Feminism, Gender Fluidity, and EnvironmentalismBruce E. Johansen