In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with Indigenous communities (the "Other") before the balance of power shifted definitively toward the colonizers. Sayre considers a variety of French perspectives as a counterpoint to the Anglo-American lens, including J. Hector St. Johnde Crèvecoeur and Philip Freneau, as well as both Anglo-American and French or French Canadian travelers in "Indian territory, " including William Bartram, Jonathan Carver, John Lawson, Alexander Mackenzie, Baron de Lahontan, Pierre Charlevoix, and Jean-Baptiste Trudeau. Modernity and Its Other is an important addition to any North American historian's bookshelf, for it brings together the social history of the European colonies and the ethnohistory of the American Indian peoples who interacted with the colonizers.
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Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1
- 1. Crèvecoeur
- 2. Philip Freneau
- 3. Moreau de Saint-Méry
- Part 2
- 4. The Zero Degree of the Other
- 5. Accounts of Travel in New France
- 6. Anglo-American Travelers
- 7. Travels of William Bartram, Quaker Botanist
- 8. Fur Traders
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About Robert Woods Sayre
- Other Works by Robert Woods Sayre
- Illustrations
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