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Savages within the empire : representations of American Indians in eighteenth-century Britain /
Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts, including newspapers, imperial p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Colección: | Oxford historical monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts, including newspapers, imperial policy, museum exhibits, the Enlightenment, missionary records, and the public outcry over the use of American Indians as allies during the American War of Independence. He thus. reveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191516009 0191516007 9780199286966 0199286965 1280903880 9781280903885 9786610903887 6610903883 |