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The battle over America's origin storylegends, amateurs, and professional historiographers /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The battle over America's origin storyby Brian Regal.
Reminder of title:	legends, amateurs, and professional historiographers /
Author:	Regal, Brian.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	ix, 325 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	History of the Americas.
Subject:	AmericaPoetry.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99538-6
ISBN:	9783030995386$q(electronic bk.)

The battle over America's origin storylegends, amateurs, and professional historiographers /
Regal, Brian.

The battle over America's origin storylegends, amateurs, and professional historiographers /[electronic resource] :by Brian Regal. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - ix, 325 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. Unforseen and Unforseeable -- 3. The Legend of Columbus -- 4. The Mound Builders -- 5. Saints Preserve Us -- 6. The Viking Theory -- 7. Norumbega -- 8. The Asia and Africa Theory -- 9. Stone Temple Pilots -- 10. The Native American Response -- 11. Nellie Horsford's Last Stand -- 12. Conclusion.

This book examines the legends of who 'really' discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials-some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did. Brian Regal is Associate Professor of history at Kean University, USA.

ISBN: 9783030995386$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-99538-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

533684
History of the Americas.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

434353
America
--Poetry.

LC Class. No.: E110

Dewey Class. No.: 970.01

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