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Author:

Sayre, Robert, 1943- author.

Title:

Modernity and its other : the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century / Robert Woods Sayre [translated from the French by Robert Woods Sayre].

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xviii, 405 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Subject:

Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans.
Travelers' writings, European--History and criticism.
Europeans--History--North America--History--18th century.
Indians of North America--History--18th century.
North America--European.--European.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
Discovery and exploration, European.
Europeans--Travel.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans.
Travelers' writings, European.
North America.
1700-1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Titles:

Modernite et son autre. English

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Crevecoeur: British America before and during the Revolutionary Upheaval -- Philip Freneau: After the Revolution -- Moreau de Saint-Mery: Fin de Siecle -- The Zero Degree of the Other: Indian Violence and "Adventure" with Indians -- Accounts of Travel in New France: Lahontan and Charlevoix -- Anglo-American Travelers: John Lawson and Jonathan Carver -- Travels of William Bartram, Quaker Botanist -- Fur Traders: Alexander Mackenzie and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau -- Epilogue: Into the Nineteenth Century- George Catlin.

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 Crevecoeur 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."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0803280971
9780803280977

OCLC:

(OCoLC)983269686

LCCN:

2017030431

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)