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The English Embrace of the American Indians: Ideas of Humanity in Early America

Autor Alan S. Rome
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 dec 2016
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 colonialpolitics and religion.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319461960
ISBN-10: 3319461966
Pagini: 245
Ilustrații: IX, 237 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2017
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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 Consciousness.- 4. 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.

Notă biografică

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.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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 colonialpolitics and religion.

Caracteristici

Provides a controversial new analysis of the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in early colonial America Features religious, philosophical, and political explorations of the history of Anglo-Native American relations Appeals to scholars of postcolonial literature, colonial historiography, and the history of human rights