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A Strange Likeness - Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (Paperback, New Ed)
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A Strange Likeness - Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (Paperback, New Ed)
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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 18th 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 18th century roots
of enduring stereotypes Indians developed about Europeans, as well
as stereotypes Europeans created about Indians. This powerful and
eloquent interpretation questions long-standing assumptions,
revealing the strange likenesses among the inhabitants of colonial
North America.
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