An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a los indios ranqueles - Brossura

Mansilla, Lucio V.

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ISBN 10: 0292752032 ISBN 13: 9780292752030

Casa editrice: Univ of Texas Pr, 1997

Riassunto

The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucia Mansilla's Una excursion a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one of very few works in American letters that presents a vivid, firsthand account of a noncombative encounter between Native American and European civilizations.
This volume is the first English translation of Mansilla's classic work. Long noted for its humor, adventurousness, and narrative ingenuity, the book offers penetrating insights into fundamental issues of "civilization and barbarism," immigration, ethnic and racial diversity, and land ownership and tenancy.
Mansilla alone among his contemporaries espoused open dialogue as the best approach to the "Indian problem." Although the peace accord he sought to enact with the Ranquels was summarily disregarded by the Argentine government, which slowly gravitated toward a policy of ethnic cleansing and expropriation of Indian lands, the Expedition does narrate a rehearsal for a reconciliation that in the end never took place.

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Book by Mansilla Lucio V

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0292752032
• ISBN 13: 9780292752030
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 434
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile