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Aristocratic Encounters - European Travelers and North American Indians (Hardcover, New)
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Aristocratic Encounters - European Travelers and North American Indians (Hardcover, New)
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Aristocratic Encounters, first published in 1999, relates how an
aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated
French and German visitors to North America, mindful of the French
Revolution, developed a new belief in their affinity with the
warrior elites of Indian societies, whom they viewed as fellow
aristocrats. The book includes chapters on major figures, such as
Chateaubriand and de Tocqueville, and on lesser, often instructive,
travelers. For European historians, the book offers fresh evidence
for the creation of a post-Revolutionary 'aristocratic' culture
through overseas travel. To the interdisciplinary audience of
readers interested in colonial encounters, it opens up a Romantic
vision of aristocrats from two worlds struggling to defend their
code of valor and honor in an age of democratic politics.
Aristocratic Encounters is a contribution to a burgeoning form of
historical writing; it moves across national boundaries to ask how
Europeans understood cultures vastly different from their own.
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