The Resource A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America, Nancy Shoemaker
A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America, Nancy Shoemaker
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- Summary
- "The relationship between American Indians and Europeans on America's frontiers is typically characterized as a series of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings based on a vast gulf of difference. Nancy Shoemaker turns this notion on its head, showing that Indians and Europeans shared common beliefs about their most fundamental realities - land as national territory, government, record-keeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body." "Before they even met, Europeans and Indians shared perceptions of a landscape marked by mountains and rivers, a physical world in which the sun rose and set every day, and a human body with its own distinctive shape. They also shared in their ability to make sense of it all and to invent new, abstract ideas based on the tangible and visible experiences of daily life. Focusing on eastern North America up through the end of the Seven Years War, Shoemaker closely reads incidents, letters, and recorded speeches from the Iroquois and Creek confederacies, the Cherokee Nation, and other Native groups alongside British and French sources, paying particular attention to the language used in cross-cultural conversation." "Paradoxically, the more American Indians and Europeans came to know each other, the more they came to see each other as different. By the end of the eighteenth century, Shoemaker argues, they abandoned an initial willingness to recognize in each other a common humanity and instead developed new ideas rooted in the conviction that, by custom and perhaps even by nature, Native Americans and Europeans were peoples fundamentally at odds. In her analysis, Shoemaker reveals the eighteenth-century roots of enduring stereotypes Indians developed about Europeans, as well as stereotypes Europeans created about Indians. This interpretation questions long-standing assumptions, revealing the strange likenesses among the inhabitants of colonial North America."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Label
- A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America
- Title
- A strange likeness
- Title remainder
- becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America
- Statement of responsibility
- Nancy Shoemaker
- Title variation
- Becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America
- Subject
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- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
- Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
- Indians of North America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Culture conflict -- North America -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Race relations
- Whites -- Race identity -- Europe
- United States -- Discovery and exploration
- Europeans -- United States -- Attitudes
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The relationship between American Indians and Europeans on America's frontiers is typically characterized as a series of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings based on a vast gulf of difference. Nancy Shoemaker turns this notion on its head, showing that Indians and Europeans shared common beliefs about their most fundamental realities - land as national territory, government, record-keeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body." "Before they even met, Europeans and Indians shared perceptions of a landscape marked by mountains and rivers, a physical world in which the sun rose and set every day, and a human body with its own distinctive shape. They also shared in their ability to make sense of it all and to invent new, abstract ideas based on the tangible and visible experiences of daily life. Focusing on eastern North America up through the end of the Seven Years War, Shoemaker closely reads incidents, letters, and recorded speeches from the Iroquois and Creek confederacies, the Cherokee Nation, and other Native groups alongside British and French sources, paying particular attention to the language used in cross-cultural conversation." "Paradoxically, the more American Indians and Europeans came to know each other, the more they came to see each other as different. By the end of the eighteenth century, Shoemaker argues, they abandoned an initial willingness to recognize in each other a common humanity and instead developed new ideas rooted in the conviction that, by custom and perhaps even by nature, Native Americans and Europeans were peoples fundamentally at odds. In her analysis, Shoemaker reveals the eighteenth-century roots of enduring stereotypes Indians developed about Europeans, as well as stereotypes Europeans created about Indians. This interpretation questions long-standing assumptions, revealing the strange likenesses among the inhabitants of colonial North America."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shoemaker, Nancy
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Culture conflict
- Whites
- Europeans
- Frontier and pioneer life
- United States
- United States
- Label
- A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America, Nancy Shoemaker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-203) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- l82003047111
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 211 p.
- Isbn
- 9780195167924
- Lccn
- 2003047111
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- ill., ports
- Label
- A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America, Nancy Shoemaker
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-203) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- l82003047111
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 211 p.
- Isbn
- 9780195167924
- Lccn
- 2003047111
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill., ports
Subject
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- History -- 18th century
- Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
- Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
- Indians of North America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
- Culture conflict -- North America -- History -- 18th century
- United States -- Race relations
- Whites -- Race identity -- Europe
- United States -- Discovery and exploration
- Europeans -- United States -- Attitudes
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