Name: A Strange Likeness: Becoming red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (en Inglés)
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Author: Nancy Shoemaker
ISBN: 9780195307108

portada A Strange Likeness: Becoming red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (en Inglés)

A Strange Likeness: Becoming red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Nancy Shoemaker

Año

2006

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

203

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.80

ISBN

9780195307108

ISBN13

9780195307108

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
C. 1600-c.1775 (época de la colonización y el asentamiento europeos en norteamérica)
Historia de américa

A Strange Likeness: Becoming red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America (en Inglés)

Nancy Shoemaker (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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.