Some Thoughts on Colonial Historians and American Indians

Merrell, James H.

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“…Still, the applicability of Locke beyond European social and economic values is called into question by the Native Americans, but that question is beyond the scope of this inquiry. For a further discussion of historiographical treatment of Native Americans during this period, see Merrell (1989Merrell ( , 2012. title of his book, American Leviathan, to pick up the influence of Hobbes in his analysis, but his description of a state of nature belies the error in this claim.…”

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The American Frontier as State of Nature

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claims that "in the beginning, all the world was America." If this were, in fact, the case, then the early American frontier ought to resemble the state of nature that Locke describes. Louis Hartz finds in early American settlement a sort of instinctive Lockeanism, while Frederick Jackson Turner sees in the frontier the primary determining factor in American development. Combining the two suggests that American society may well have developed along Lockean lines, but only if the frontier was in fact at least an approximation of Locke's state of nature. The frontier does resemble such a state in certain respects, though Locke's concepts of natural law and justice are conspicuously absent, or at least very weak. This helps to explain why the Americanized version of Locke described by Hartz, rather than a more accurate and complete reading, became the dominant ideological force in early American political development.

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“…Essa forma de pesquisa interdisciplinar muito contribui para o entendimento da dinâmica das populações indígenas americanas desde sua criação. Contudo, atualmente, sofre com a crise da pós-modernidade sendo apontada como perniciosa por fazer distinção entre a "histó-ria indígena" e a "história geral" (51). Com isso aponta-se para um novo direcionamento, denominado de antropologia histórica (ou antro-história), possibilitando novo fôlego, mas com a continuidade de certos aspectos metodológicos (49).…”

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