Empire and Others British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 16-185

Name: Empire and Others British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 16-185
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ISBN: 9780812216998

ISBN-10: 0812216997

ISBN-13: 9780812216998

Edition: 1999

Authors: Martin Daunton, Rick Halpern

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Empire and Others explores the many complex ways in which identities were forged with Britain and among indigenous peoples through a processs of collision and compromise.

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 3/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Introduction


British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire


The British and indigenous peoples, 1760-1850 -power, perception and identity


Encounters between British and indigenous peoples, c1500-c1800


Native Americans, early modern concepts of race


Praying with the enemy


King Philips's war and the danger of intercultural mediatorship


The cutting edge of British culture - British soldiers encounter native Americans in the French and Indian war


Protecting trade through war - Choctaw elites and the British occupation of the Floridas


Hunting and the politics of masculinity in Cherokee treaty-making, 1763-1775


Racialization and the feminization of poverty in early America - Indian women as the "poor of the town" in 18th century Rhode Island


"They are so frequently shifting their place of residence" - land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts


Legitimacies, Indian identities and the law - the politics of sex and the creation of history in colonial New England


Images of aboriginal childhood - contested governance in the Canadian West to 1850


Authority under challenge - Pikanpul land and Queen Victoria's law during the British invasion of Australia


The genocide policy in English-Kalinago relations in the 17th century


William Knibb and the constitution of the new black subject


"When the saints come marching in" - the anti-slavery society and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean


North American experience and British missionary encounters in Africa and the Pacific, 1800-1850


Losing faith in the civilizing mission - the premature decline of humanitarian liberalism at the Cape