In this Book
- Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the “Other”) before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonizers.
Sayre considers a variety of French perspectives as a counterpoint to the Anglo-American lens, including J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Philip Freneau, as well as both Anglo-American and French or French Canadian travelers in “Indian territory,” including William Bartram, Jonathan Carver, John Lawson, Alexander Mackenzie, Baron de Lahontan, Pierre Charlevoix, and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau. Modernity and Its Other is an important addition to any North American historian’s bookshelf, for it brings together the social history of the European colonies and the ethnohistory of the American Indian peoples who interacted with the colonizers.
Sayre considers a variety of French perspectives as a counterpoint to the Anglo-American lens, including J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and Philip Freneau, as well as both Anglo-American and French or French Canadian travelers in “Indian territory,” including William Bartram, Jonathan Carver, John Lawson, Alexander Mackenzie, Baron de Lahontan, Pierre Charlevoix, and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau. Modernity and Its Other is an important addition to any North American historian’s bookshelf, for it brings together the social history of the European colonies and the ethnohistory of the American Indian peoples who interacted with the colonizers.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xv-xviii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-26
- Part 1. Views of Modernity: Internal/External Discovery
- Part 2. Views of the Other: Travels in “Indian Territory”
- Conclusion
- pp. 295-306
- Bibliography
- pp. 369-396
Additional Information
ISBN
9781496204790
Related ISBN(s)
9780803280977
MARC Record
OCLC
995355478
Pages
468
Launched on MUSE
2018-01-03
Language
English
Open Access
No