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Author McKee, Stuart D., author

Title Indigenous enlightenment : printing and education in evangelical colonialism, 1790-1850 / Stuart D. McKee
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 570 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Part 1. A cry for books and teachers: the scheme of indigenous schooling -- Part 2. Learning the indigenous languages: printing in the South Pacific, 1797-1836 -- Part 3. An uneasy conflation of cultures: printing in Bengal, 1775-1835 -- Part 4. A civilization gone stagnant: printing for the people of China, 1805-35 -- Part 5. "In a savage country": printing at the U.S. borderlands, 1825-50
Summary In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading and learning between 1790 and 1850
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Stuart D. McKee is an associate professor of design at the University of San Francisco, where he teaches the history and practice of typography and publication design
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Subject Indigenous peoples -- Education -- History -- 18th century
Indigenous peoples -- Education -- History -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- Colonization
Literacy -- Social aspects
Native language and education.
Printing in education -- History -- 18th century
Printing in education -- History -- 19th century
Indigenous peoples -- Education
Literacy -- Social aspects
Native language and education
Printing in education
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496237972
1496237978
9781496237965
149623796X