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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bickham, Troy O.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:Oxford historical monographs.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Encountering American Indians in Britain: visits and virtual journeys
  • American Indians in the British press
  • Lessons from a decade of conflict and the formation of a new imperial regime
  • The new imperial regime at work
  • 'Under the rudest form in which we can conceive man to subsist': the Scottish enlightenment and the North American Indians
  • Empire through evangelization: the society for the propagation of the Gospel and the American Indians
  • American Indians and Britain's American War of Independence.