Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin.

• List of IllustrationsForewordPaul Chaat SmithAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatt Cohen and Jeffrey GloverPart I. Beyond Textual Media1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model? “The Book” in Native AmericaGermaine Warkentin2. Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and LiteracyAndrew Newman3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great LakesHeidi BohakerPart II. Multimedia Texts4. The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva CorÓnica y Buen GobiernoBirgit Brander Rasmussen5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of QuilcaGalen Brokaw6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”: Colonial Mimesis and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall TaleGordon M. SayrePart III. Sensory New Worlds7. Brave New Worlds: The First Century of Indian-English EncountersPeter Charles Hoffer8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying “This Is Mine” in Colonial New EnglandJon Coleman9. Hearing Wampum: The Senses, Mediation, and the Limits of AnalogyRichard Cullen RathPart IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes10. Writing as “Khipu”: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Account of the Conquest of PeruRalph Bauer11. Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native BorderlandsJeffrey Glover12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal LanguageSarah RivettContributorsIndex

"Colonial Mediascapes offers compelling insights from a veritable Who's Who of early American literacy studies. The range of topics, the geographical diversity, and the thoughtfully developed connections between these essays makes this a particularly welcome project. This is a timely collection that will without a doubt have a major impact on a number of intersecting fields—book history, Native studies, early American studies, literacy studies."—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin.

• List of IllustrationsForewordPaul Chaat SmithAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatt Cohen and Jeffrey GloverPart I. Beyond Textual Media1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model? “The Book” in Native AmericaGermaine Warkentin2. Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and LiteracyAndrew Newman3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great LakesHeidi BohakerPart II. Multimedia Texts4. The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva CorÓnica y Buen GobiernoBirgit Brander Rasmussen5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of QuilcaGalen Brokaw6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”: Colonial Mimesis and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall TaleGordon M. SayrePart III. Sensory New Worlds7. Brave New Worlds: The First Century of Indian-English EncountersPeter Charles Hoffer8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying “This Is Mine” in Colonial New EnglandJon Coleman9. Hearing Wampum: The Senses, Mediation, and the Limits of AnalogyRichard Cullen RathPart IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes10. Writing as “Khipu”: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Account of the Conquest of PeruRalph Bauer11. Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native BorderlandsJeffrey Glover12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal LanguageSarah RivettContributorsIndex

"Colonial Mediascapes offers compelling insights from a veritable Who's Who of early American literacy studies. The range of topics, the geographical diversity, and the thoughtfully developed connections between these essays makes this a particularly welcome project. This is a timely collection that will without a doubt have a major impact on a number of intersecting fields—book history, Native studies, early American studies, literacy studies."—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604–1664. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin.

• List of IllustrationsForewordPaul Chaat SmithAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatt Cohen and Jeffrey GloverPart I. Beyond Textual Media1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model? “The Book” in Native AmericaGermaine Warkentin2. Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and LiteracyAndrew Newman3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great LakesHeidi BohakerPart II. Multimedia Texts4. The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva CorÓnica y Buen GobiernoBirgit Brander Rasmussen5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of QuilcaGalen Brokaw6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”: Colonial Mimesis and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall TaleGordon M. SayrePart III. Sensory New Worlds7. Brave New Worlds: The First Century of Indian-English EncountersPeter Charles Hoffer8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying “This Is Mine” in Colonial New EnglandJon Coleman9. Hearing Wampum: The Senses, Mediation, and the Limits of AnalogyRichard Cullen RathPart IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes10. Writing as “Khipu”: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Account of the Conquest of PeruRalph Bauer11. Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native BorderlandsJeffrey Glover12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal LanguageSarah RivettContributorsIndex

"Colonial Mediascapes offers compelling insights from a veritable Who's Who of early American literacy studies. The range of topics, the geographical diversity, and the thoughtfully developed connections between these essays makes this a particularly welcome project. This is a timely collection that will without a doubt have a major impact on a number of intersecting fields—book history, Native studies, early American studies, literacy studies."—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830