Groundless (Record no. 625)
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid LC control number | 2015010721 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781421418667 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 1421418665 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781421418650 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 1421418657 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)930270035 |
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| Original cataloging agency | MdBmJHUP |
| Transcribing agency | MdBmJHUP |
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| Geographic area code | n-us--- |
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| Classification number | E179 |
| Item number | .D685 2015 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 973 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dowd, Gregory Evans, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1956- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Groundless |
| Medium | [electronic resource] : |
| Remainder of title | rumors, legends, and hoaxes on the early American frontier / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Gregory Evans Dowd. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Baltimore : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Johns Hopkins University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2015. |
| Place of manufacture | (Baltimore, Md. : |
| Manufacturer | Project MUSE, |
| Date of manufacture | 2015) |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (pages cm.) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Early America : history, context, culture |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Today we have grown so used to having boundless information at our fingertips that we can easily forget the practical limits on reliable news that both natives and European settlers faced in early America. Beyond what one could see or hear at the instant, one could only make surmises based on what others reported or reportedly said, etc. In a real sense, rumor ruled. Historians have known about this problem of information and wondered about how stories of far-off deeds, plans, or intentions could develop and then travel about from place to place, crossing various lines of authority and changing in every telling. Here Greg Dowd, an established student of Native Americans and their encounters with white settlers, makes a determined effort to examine the phenomenon itself. Using about a dozen case studies, organized in parts that alternately deal with overarching themes and groups of specific episodes, he asks on what basis rumors or legends emerged in the first place and why they grew as they did and reached the level of credibility they did. The Spanish belief that the interior of America hid huge supplies of gold will be familiar to readers, as will the white practice of using tainted blankets to spread smallpox among the natives (this before the germ theory of disease). Others, like stories of Washington's use of rumor and Franklin's worries about counterfeit currency and the role of bad information in the Indian-removal campaign of the Andrew Jackson presidency may surprise"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 520 2# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Why did Elizabethan adventurers believe that the interior of America hid vast caches of gold? Who started the rumor that British officers purchased revolutionary white women's scalps, packed them by the bale, and shipped them to their superiors? And why are people today still convinced that white settlers--hardly immune as a group to the disease--routinely distributed smallpox-tainted blankets to the natives? Rumor--spread by colonists and Native Americans alike--ran rampant in early America. In Groundless, historian Gregory Evans Dowd explores why half-truths, deliberate lies, and outrageous legends emerged in the first place, how they grew, and why they were given such credence throughout the New World. Arguing that rumors are part of the objective reality left to us by the past--a kind of fragmentary archival record--he examines how uncertain news became powerful enough to cascade through the centuries. Drawing on specific case studies and tracing recurring rumors over many generations, Dowd explains the seductive power of unreliable stories in the eastern North American frontiers from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. The rumors studied here--some alluring, some frightening--commanded attention and demanded action. They were all, by definition, groundless, but they were not all false, and they influenced the classic issues of historical inquiry: the formation of alliances, the making of revolutions, the expropriation of labor and resources, and the origins of war"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on print version record. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States |
| General subdivision | History |
| -- | Errors, inventions, etc. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | HISTORY / United States / General. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Hoaxes |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Legends |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Rumor |
| General subdivision | Social aspects |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Frontier and pioneer life |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Project Muse. |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Public note | Full text available: |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781421418667/ |
| 945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) | |
| a | Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 History |
| 945 ## - LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) | |
| a | Project MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete |
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