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

Author/creator O'Rourke, David K.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Peter Lang, ©2005.
Description210 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
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.

SeriesBerkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 56
Berkeley insights in linguistics and semiotics ; v. 56. ^A682317
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index.
LCCN 2003011201
ISBN0820468142 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks E441 .O765 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold