Troy Bickham

Savages Within the Empire

Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

, "Savages within the Empire" explores both how Britons engaged with the peripheries of their Atlantic empire without leaving home, and, equally important, how their forged understanding significantly affected the British and their rapidly expanding world. It draws from a wide range of evidence to consider an array of eighteenth-century contexts, including material culture, print culture, imperial government policy, the Church of England's missionary endeavours, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the public outcry over the use of American Indians as allies during the American War of Independence. By chronicling and exploring discussions and representations of American Indians in these contexts, Troy Bickham reveals the proliferation of empire-related subjects in eighteenth-century British culture as well as the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons approached them.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199286966
• ISBN-10: 0199286965
• Artikelnr.: 22147110

Autorenporträt

Troy Bickham, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M University

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I
* 1: Encountering American Indians in Britain: Visits and Virtual
Journeys
* 2: American Indians in the British Press
* II
* 3: Lessons from a Decade of Conflict and the Formation of a New
Imperial Regime
* 4: The New Imperial Regime at Work
* III
* 5: 'Under the rudest form in which we can conceive man to subsist':
The Scottish Enlightenment and the North American Indians
* 6: Empire through Evangelization: The Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel and the American Indians
* IV
* 7: American Indians and Britain's American War of Independence
* Conclusion
* Bibliography
* Index