Modernity and its other : the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century

Resource Information

The work Modernity and its other : the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Modernity and its other : the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century

Title remainder

the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century

Statement of responsibility

Robert Woods Sayre

Creator

• Sayre, Robert, 1943-
• Sayre, Robert, 1943-

Author

• Sayre, Robert, 1943-
• Sayre, Robert, 1943-

Subject

• Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism
• Europeans -- Travel -- North America -- History -- 18th century
• Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
• Indians of North America -- History -- 18th century
• North America -- Discovery and exploration | European

Language

eng

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."--

Member of

• Online access with subscription: Proquest Ebook Central

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

MiAaPQ

Dewey number

970.00497

Index

index present

LC call number

E77

LC item number

.S297 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography