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- Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind
- Book
- 1988
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended with the near extermination of Native American culure.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- PART 1: Antecedents and Origins, 1609–1777
- PART 2: The Life and Death of the American Savage, 1777–1851
- PART 3: Afterthoughts, 1851–
- Postscript
- pp. 253-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520908673
Related ISBN(s)
9780520062276
MARC Record
OCLC
44959041
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No