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Book Review
Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes, 18801940. By Sherry L. Smith. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. xii, 273 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-19-513635-7.)
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Amid a flood of books on the constructed Indian, historians have been holding their own. Cultural studies with its virtual monopoly on discourse analysis may think it invented the subject, but historians have had a long-standing interest in ideas about the Indian and their practical consequences in policy formulation. Recently, historians have analyzed the newspaper Indian, the Protestant missionary Indian, and, in Sherry L. Smith's latest book (she earlier examined army perceptions of Indians), the Indianists' Indian. |
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