Modernity and Its Other

The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Robert W. Sayre (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

456 Seiten

2017
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-8097-7 (ISBN)

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Examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilisation (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the “Other”) before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonisers.

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.

Robert Woods Sayre is a professor emeritus of English and American literature and civilization at the University of Paris East, Marne-La-VallÉe. He is the author of several books, including Solitude in Society: A Sociological Study in French Literature, and the coauthor (with Michael LÖwy) of Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Views of Modernity: Internal/External Discovery
1. CrÈvecoeur: British America before and during the Revolutionary Upheaval
2. Philip Freneau: After the Revolution
3. Moreau de Saint-MÉry: Fin de SiÈcle
Part 2. Views of the Other: Travels in “Indian Territory”
4. The Zero Degree of the Other: Indian Violence and “Adventure” with Indians
5. Accounts of Travel in New France: Lahontan and Charlevoix
6. Anglo-American Travelers: John Lawson and Jonathan Carver
7. Travels of William Bartram, Quaker Botanist
8. Fur Traders: Alexander Mackenzie and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau
Epilogue: Into the Nineteenth Century-George Catlin
Conclusion
Appendix: Chronology of Historical Events, Travels, and Publications
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2017
Übersetzer	Robert W. Sayre
Zusatzinfo	25 illustrations, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8032-8097-1 / 0803280971
ISBN-13	978-0-8032-8097-7 / 9780803280977
Zustand	Neuware