An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a los indios ranqueles (Texas Pan American Series) - Tapa blanda

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Mansilla, Lucio V.

 
9780292752030: An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians: Excursion a los indios ranqueles (Texas Pan American Series)
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ISBN 10: 0292752032 ISBN 13: 9780292752030
Editorial: University of Texas Press, 1997

Sinopsis

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. Lucio Mansilla’s Una excursión 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 towards 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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Acerca del autor

Lucio V. Mansilla (1831–1913), a colonel in the Argentine army, was a diarist and essayist who dealt with the political problem of assimilating indigenous people. Translator Mark McCaffrey holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

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Editorial
University of Texas Press
Año de publicación
1997
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0292752032
ISBN 13 
9780292752030
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
434
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9780292751927: An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians (Texas Pan American Series) [Idioma Inglés]

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ISBN 10:  0292751923 ISBN 13:  9780292751927
Editorial: University of Texas Press, 1997
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