American contact : objects of intercultural encounters and the boundaries of book history / edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Glenda Goodman.

Other author Barnes, Rhae Lynn, editor.
Other author Goodman, Glenda, editor.
Format Electronic
Publication[Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental ContentEbook Central
Subjects
Books--America. --History.

SeriesMaterial texts
Material texts. ^A486421
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. The Layered Legibilities of Intercultural Encounters -- Chapter 1. Through the Medium of the Land: Serpent Mound Within and Without Ohio -- Chapter 2. Writing-on-Stone and Book History: Recording the Life-World of the Great Plains -- Chapter 3. Reading and Misreading an Eighth-Century Maya Stela -- Chapter 4. The Birth and Life of the Tlaquimilolli (Sacred Bundle) -- Chapter 5. Indigenous Fabrics of Empire in the Sixteenth-Century Northern Andes -- Chapter 6. Alonso de Molina's Grammar Book in Sixteenth-Century Tenochtitlan
Contents Chapter 7. Writing and Resistance in the Conquest of Mexico's Wake -- Chapter 8. Intercultural Encounters and the Codex Mexicanus -- Chapter 9. Bookmaking in Tlatelolco After the Apocalypse -- Chapter 10. Chihoatenhwa's Prayer: A Wendat-Jesuit Print Encounter from Seventeenth-Century New France -- Chapter 11. A Timucua Epistle from Seventeenth-Century Florida -- Chapter 12. A Contested Pennacook Object in a Seventeenth-Century Puritan Mission -- Chapter 13. Daniel Gookin's "Doings and Sufferings" and the Contradictions of the New England Mission
Contents Chapter 14. And Their Words Were Reduced to Writing: The Materiality of Torture Transcripts in Early Eighteenth-Century Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador) -- Chapter 15. Christoph Saur's House: Toward an Anticolonial History of the Settlement of Germantown -- Chapter 16. Slaveholding, Seasoning, and the Circulation of Culinary Knowledge in the Frankland Family Receipt Book -- Chapter 17. A Jewish Gravestone in Eighteenth-Century Charleston -- Chapter 18. The Uses and Reuses of Ephemeral Colonial Print in Black Households
Contents Chapter 19. A Guatemalan Rulebook and the Discipling of Catholic Singing in the Spanish Colonial World -- Chapter 20. An Eighteenth-Century Quaker Poem and Transatlantic Abolitionism -- Chapter 21. Ephemeral Texts in a Semiliterate Society: A Subversive Pasquinade in 1790 Caracas -- Chapter 22. Disparate Sources of an 1800 Settlement Negotiation in Freetown, Sierra Leone -- Chapter 23. Texas Mexican Women and the War of Independence from Spain: Memory, Writing, Forgetting -- Chapter 24. Refuting Procolonial Discourse in Postcolonial Haitian Pamphlets
Contents Chapter 25. Muhammad Kaba Saghanughu's 1838 Arabic Address in Jamaica -- Chapter 26. Monk on Fire: Imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas -- Chapter 27. Afong Moy's Ephemera and the Ephemerality of the Early Asian American Archive -- Chapter 28. Coloring Outside the Lines: The Comic Valentine as a Queer and Gender-Variant Object -- Chapter 29. Lady Historian, Cuban Exile, and German Hatter: An Immigrant Story of Emma Willard's Compendio de la Historia de los Estados Unidos as Translated by Miguel T. Tolón -- Chapter 30. Chinese Print in Early California
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Source of descriptionOnline resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed February 15, 2024).
ISBN9781512825763 (electronic bk.)
ISBN151282576X (electronic bk.)
Stock number22573/cats7817978 JSTOR

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