The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd

The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism

Jodi A. Byrd

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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Examines how “Indianness” has propagated U.S. conceptions of empireIn 1761 and again in 1769, European scientists raced around the world to observe the transit of Venus, a rare astronomical event in which the planet Venus passes in front of the su...

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