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The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

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  1. James Carson

    1. History Department, Queen’s University, Canada

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Imperial Designs

    • James Carson
    Pages 1-24

  3. Colonial and Early National Foundations

    • James Carson
    Pages 25-48

  4. The Modern Professionals

    • James Carson
    Pages 49-68

  5. Other Ways of Seeing and Doing

    • James Carson
    Pages 69-92

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 93-127
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About this book

This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical signs of skin color into a transhistorical and essentialist notion of race that implicates their work in the very racial categories they seek to transcend.
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Authors and Affiliations

  • History Department, Queen’s University, Canada

    James Carson

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About the author

James Carson is Chair of the Department of History at Queen's University, Canada.
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

  • Authors: James Carson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137438638

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: James Carson 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-43862-1Published: 22 December 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-43863-8Published: 18 December 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 127

  • Topics: History of the Americas, Social History, Ethnicity Studies, US History

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