Review article published in:
Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 16:1/2 (1989) ► pp. 149–171
Review article

Recent studies of American Linguistics

Robert E. Bieder. Science Encounters the Indian, 1820–1880
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. 290, xiii pp.
, Regna D. Darnell. Daniel Garrison Brinton
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Anthropology Publication 3, 1987. 194 pp.
, Frederick J. Newmeyer. The Politics of Linguistics
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. 171 pp.
andMartin Joos. Notes on the Development of the Linguistic Society of America, 1924-1950
Ithaca, NY: Linguistica, 1986. 170 pp.

| Instituto Obregón, San Francisco
Published online: 01 January 1989
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.16.1-2.10mur
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