The English Embrace of the American Indians
Ideas of Humanity in Early America
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial...
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This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by demonstrating that the true tragedy of colonial relations was precisely the genuineness of benevolence, and not its cynical exploitation or subordination to other ends that was often the compelling force behind conflict and suffering. It was because the English genuinely believed that the Indians were their equals in body and mind that they fatally tried to embrace them. From an intellectual exploration of the abstract ideas of human rights in colonial America and the grounded realities of the politics that existed there to a narrative of how these ideas played out in relations between the two peoples in the early years of the colony, this book challenges and subverts current understanding of English colonial politics and religion.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The English Embrace of the American Indians “
1. Introduction 2. The Savage Mind: Metaphysics and the Humanity of the Indian 3. Savages in the Streams of Time: The Indian in English Historical Consciousness4. A Digression on Air: Race and Climate in Early America 5. Powhatan's Two Bodies: Civil Savage, Savage Colonist 6. Killing with Kindness: The Tragedy of Benevolence 7. Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von Alan S. Rome
Alan S. Rome is Research Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Australia. He works on the intellectual history of early modern America and Europe and has taught extensively in American and European history.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alan S. Rome
- 2016, 1st ed. 2017, IX, 237 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 21,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3319461966
- ISBN-13: 9783319461960
- Erscheinungsdatum: 15.01.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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