White Savage
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White Savage

William Johnson and the Invention of America

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eBook - ePub

White Savage

William Johnson and the Invention of America

About this book

A dramatic, exciting and tragic book about the Irish fur trapper who held the fate of America and the British Empire in his hands.

William Johnson began life as a poor Irish Catholic peasant. After converting to Protestantism, he emigrated to America where he became the leading fur trader in the British colony and one of its richest men. He also 'went native', marrying an Indian woman and adopting the religion of her tribe, the Iroquois. When war broke out between the French and English, Johnson held the fate of the British Empire in his hands. If the Indians fought with the French, the British were doomed.

A fascinating historical biography of this adventurous man, whose reinvention in the New World made him the first modern American.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2015
eBook ISBN
9780571319411
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Maps
  9. 1: Tears, Throat, Heart
  10. 2: Spectres and Apparitions
  11. 3: Amphibians
  12. 4: Most Onruly and Streperous
  13. 5: An Outlandish Man
  14. 6: How the White Man Came to America
  15. 7: The Holy Well
  16. 8: Raw Head and Bloody Bones
  17. 9: The Power of Absence
  18. 10: Force, Motion and Equilibrium
  19. 11: The Late Emperor of Morocco
  20. 12: Master of Ceremonies
  21. 13: An Upstart of Yesterday
  22. 14: The Precarious Salvo of Applause
  23. 15: Unspeakable Perplexity
  24. 16: The Largest Pipe in America
  25. 17: Miss Molly
  26. 18: Rowing against the Current
  27. 19: Sir Willam and his Myrmidons
  28. 20: Niagara Falls
  29. 21: Barbarians
  30. 22: Seeds Worth Sowing
  31. 23: ‘Intoxicated with providential Success’
  32. 24: A Stop to Their Very Being
  33. 25: What the Great Turtle Said
  34. 26: Many Civil Things
  35. 27: An Imaginary Line
  36. 28: The Patriarch
  37. 29: Negroes Handcuffs
  38. 30: Irish Dreamtime
  39. 31: A Death Foretold
  40. 32: The End of the World
  41. 33: The Afterlife
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. Picture Credits
  44. Notes
  45. Index
  46. Plates
  47. About the Author
  48. By the Same Author
  49. Copyright