Savages within the empire [[electronic resource] ] : representations of American Indians in eighteenth-century Britain / / Troy O. Bickham

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807475003321
• Autore: Bickham Troy O
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-383-04333-7; 1-280-90388-0; 0-19-151600-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Oxford Historical Monographs
• Disciplina: 973.04/97
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Historiography; Indians of North America - Foreign public opinion, British; Public opinion - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Historiography - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Indians of North America - Historiography; Imperialism - Historiography; Great Britain Colonies America Historiography; Great Britain Civilization American influences; Great Britain Civilization 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Map; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I; 1. Encountering American Indians in Britain: Visits and Virtual Journeys; 2. American Indians in the British Press; PART II; 3. Lessons from a Decade of Conflict and the Formation of a New Imperial Regime; 4. The New Imperial Regime at Work; PART 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; PART IV; 7. American Indians and Britain's American War of IndependenceConclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y
• Sommario/riassunto: 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