A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America

by Nancy Shoemaker

Hardcover, 2004

LCC

E98 F39 S56 2004

Description

When American Indians and Europeans met on the frontiers of 18th-century eastern North America, they had many shared ideas about human nature, political life, and social relations. This title is about how they came to see themselves as people so different in their customs and natures that they appeared to be each other's opposite.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects

Tags

Indigenous people--North America--First contact with Europeans, Indigenous people--North America--History--18th century--Sources, Indigenous people--North America--Ethnic identity, Culture conflict--North America--History--18th century, White people--Race identity--Europe, Europeans--United States--Attitudes, Frontier and pioneer life--United States--History--18th century, Indigenous people--North America--History--Colonial period (ca. 1600-1775), United States--Discovery and exploration, United States--Race relations

Notes

When American Indians and Europeans met on the frontiers of 18th-century eastern North America, they had many shared ideas about human nature, political life, and social relations. This title is about how they came to see themselves as people so different in their customs and natures that they appeared to be each other's opposite.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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