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The poor Indians : British missionaries, Native Americans, and colonial sensibility /
Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia [Pa.] :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Early American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: "The Common Bowels of Pity to the Miserable"
- 1 Gold for Glass, Seeds to Fruit: Husbandry and Trade in Missionary Writings
- 2 "I Have Received Your Christian and Very Loving Letter": Epistolarity and Transatlantic Community
- 3 "The Reservoir of National Charity": The Role of the Missionary Society
- 4 Indians, Deists, and the Anglican Quest for Compassion: The Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
- 5 The Sacrifice of Self: Emotional Expenditure and Transatlantic Ties in Brainerdi and Sergeant's Biographies
- 6 "Like Snow Against the Sun": The Christian Origins of the Vanishing Indian
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.