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Indigenous London : native travelers at the heart of empire /

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thrush, Coll-Peter, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016]
Colección:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons
  • Interlude One: A Devil's Looking Glass, circa 1676
  • Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London 1580-1630
  • Interlude Two: A Debtor's Petition 1676
  • Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder 1710-1765
  • Interlude Three: Atlantes 1761
  • "Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt": Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City 1766-1785
  • Interlude Four: A Lost Museum 1793
  • That Kind Urbanity of Manner: Navigating Ritual in Maori and Kanaka Maoli London 1806-1866
  • Interlude Five: A Hat Factory, circa 1875
  • Civilization Itself Consents: Disciplining Bodies in Imperial Suburbia 1861-1914
  • Interlude Six: A Notebook 1929
  • The City of Long Memory: Remembering and Reclaiming Indigenous London 1982-2013
  • Epilogue: The Other Indigenous London
  • Appendix: Self-Guided Encounters with Indigenous London.