Modernity and its other : the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century / Robert Woods Sayre ; translated by Robert Woods Sayre.
Sayre, Robert, 1943- author.
2017
E77 .S2913 2017
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Title Modernity and its other : the encounter with North American Indians in the eighteenth century / Robert Woods Sayre ; translated by Robert Woods Sayre.
Author Sayre, Robert, 1943- author.
Uniform Title Modernité et son autre. English
ISBN 9781496204776 (electronic bk.)
1496204778 (electronic bk.)
9781496204790 (electronic bk.)
1496204794 (electronic bk.)
9781496204783
1496204786
9780803280977 (paperback : alk. paper)
0803280971
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
Language English
Language Note Translated from the French.
Description 1 online resource (xviii, 405 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates)
Call Number E77 .S2913 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 970.004/97
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Views of Modernity: Internal/External Discovery 1. Crevecoeur: British America before and during the Revolutionary Upheaval 2. Philip Freneau: After the Revolution 3. Moreau de Saint-Mery: Fin de Siecle 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.

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