Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World

<p>For centuries historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery invasion conquest and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence movements knowledges and experiences as a technology of colonization in the early modern Atlantic world 1492-1900. It exposes how textual culture has ensured that Euro-settlers dominate Native Americans while detailing misrepresentations of Indigenous peoples as unmodern and proposing how the western world can be un-firsted in scholarship on this time and place.</p>