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Savages within the Empire - Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Savages within the Empire - Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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In 1720s London, a well-known band of young ruffians gave
themselves crescent tattoos and adorned turbans in honor of their
so-called "mohamattan [Muslim]" Indian namesakes, the Mohawk. Few
Britons noticed the gang's mistaken muddling of North American and
Indian subcontinent geographies and cultures. Even fewer cared in
an age in which "Indian" was a catch-all term applied to theatre
characters, philosophies, and objects whose only common
characteristic often was that they were not European. Yet just
thirty years later, when the North American empire had entered
center stage, Londoners bought Iroquois tomahawks at auctions;
provincial newspapers debated Cherokee politics; women shopkeepers
read aloud newspaper accounts of frontier battles as their husbands
counted the takings; church congregations listened to the sermons
of American Indian converts; families toured museum exhibits of
American Indian artefacts; and Oxford dons wagered their bottles of
port on the outcome of American wars.
Focusing on the question, 'How did the British who remained in
Britain perceive American Indians, and how did these perceptions
reflect and affect British culture?', Savages within the Empire
explores both how Britons engaged with the peripheries of their
Atlantic empire without leaving home, and, equally important, how
their forged understanding significantly affected the British and
their rapidly expanding world. It draws from a wide range of
evidence to consider an array of eighteenth-century contexts,
including material culture, print culture, imperial government
policy, the Church of England's missionary endeavours, the Scottish
Enlightenment, and the public outcry over the use of
AmericanIndians as allies during the American War of Independence.
By chronicling and exploring discussions and representations of
American Indians in these contexts, Troy Bickham reveals the
proliferation of empire-related subjects in eighteenth-century
British culture as well as the prevailing pragmatism with which
Britons approached them.
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