The English Embrace of the American Indians : Ideas of Humanity in Early America.

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The English Embrace of the American Indians : Ideas of Humanity in Early America.

9783319461960
3319461966
9783319461977
3319461974

New York : Palgrave Macmillan Dec. 2016 Secaucus : Springer [Distributor]

English

1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations.

9783319461960

D1-DX301

973.0497

Annotation This text makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by demonstrating that the true tragedy of colonial relations was precisely the genuineness of benevolence, and not its cynical exploitation or subordination to other ends that was often the compelling force behind conflict and suffering. It was because the English genuinely believed that the Indians were their equals in body and mind that they fatally tried to embrace them.

Annotation This text makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by demonstrating that the true tragedy of colonial relations was precisely the genuineness of benevolence, and not its cynical exploitation or subordination to other ends that was often the compelling force behind conflict and suffering. It was because the English genuinely believed that the Indians were their equals in body and mind that they fatally tried to embrace them.

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