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Author Bickham, Troy O

Title Savages within the empire : representations of American Indians in eighteenth-century Britain / Troy O. Bickham
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 301 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Oxford historical monographs
Oxford historical monographs
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
British colonies
Civilization
Civilization -- American influences
Historiography
Imperialism -- Historiography
Indians of North America -- Historiography
Public opinion
Indianen.
Beeldvorming.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography
Great Britain -- Civilization -- American influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86006483
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056624
Subject America
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191516009
0191516007
9780199286966
0199286965
1280903880
9781280903885
9786610903887
6610903883