Empire and others : British encounters with indigenous peoples, 1600-1850

Daunton, M. J. (Martin J.) (Added Author). Halpern, Rick. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780812216998 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0812216997 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xii, 400 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire / Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern --The British and indigenous peoples, 1960-1860: power, perception and identity / C.A. Bayly --Encounters between British and "indigenous" peoples, c. 1500-c. 1800 / Philip D. Morgan --Native Americans and early modern concepts of race / Kathleen Brown --Praying with the enemy: Daniel Gookin, King Philip's war and the dangers of intercutural mediatorship / Louise A. Breen --The cutting edge of culture: British soldiers encounter Native Americans in the French and Indian war / Peter Way --Protecting trade through war: Choctaw elites and British occupation of the Floridas / Greg O'Brien --Hunting and the politics of masculinity in Cherokee treaty-making, 1763-75 / Nathaniel Sheidley --Racialization and feminization of poverty in early America: Indian women as "the poor of the town" in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Rugh Wallis Herndon --"They are so frequently shifting their place of residence": land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts / Jean O'Brien --Legitimacies, Indian identiities and the law: the politics of sex and the creation of history in colonial New England / Ann Marie Plane --Images of aboriginal childhood: contested governance in the Canadian west to 1850 / Russell Smandych and Anne McGillivray --Authority under challenge: Pikampul land and Queen Victoria's law during the British invasion of Australia / Heather Goodall --The genocide policy in English-Karifauna relations in the seventeenth century / Hilary Beckles --William Knibb and the constitution of the new black subject / Catherin Hall --"When the saints came marching in": the anti-slavery society and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean / Madhavi Kale --North American experience and British missionary encounters in Africa and the Pacific, c. 1800-50 / Andrew Porter --Losing faith in the civilizing mission: the premature decline of humanitarian liberalism at the Cape, 1840-60 / Andrew Bank.