Professor M Daunton, Rick Halpern

Empire And Others

British Encounters With Indigenous Peoples 1600-1850

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Produktbeschreibung

The forging of a British identity in the 17th and 18th centuries was also played out in North America, the Caribbean, Australia and New Zealand. This text integrates the history of these areas with British and imperial history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 161mm x 241mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 752g
• ISBN-13: 9781857289916
• ISBN-10: 1857289919
• Artikelnr.: 37193786

Autorenporträt

Martin Daunton was formerly the Astor Professor of British History at University College London, before moving to the chair of economic history at Cambridge in 1997. He is the author of Progress and poverty: an economic and social history of Britain, 1700-1850, and is currently completing a book on the politics of British taxation from 1815 to the present. Rick Halpern is Reader in the History of the United States. His most recent publication is Down on the killing floor: Black and white workers in Chicago's packinghouses, 1904-1954. He is currently working on a comparative study of race and labour in the sugar industries of the United States and South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction: British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire /Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern
2 The British and indigenous peoples, 1760
1860: power, perception and identity /C. A. Bayly
3 Encounters between British and "indigenous" peoples, c. 1500
c. 1800 /Philip D. Morgan
4 Native Americans and early modern concepts of race /Kathleen Brown
5 Praying with the enemy: Daniel Gookin, King Philip's War and the dangers of intercultural mediatorship /Louise A. Breen
6 The cutting edge of culture: British soldiers encounter Native Americans in the French and Indian war /Peter Way
7 Protecting trade through war: Choctaw elites and British occupation of the Floridas /Greg O'Brien
8 Hunting and the politics of masculinity in Cherokee treaty
making, 1763
75 /Nathaniel Sheidley
9 Racialization and feminization of poverty in early America: Indian women as "the poor of the town" in eighteenth
century Rhode Island /Ruth Wallis Herndon
10 "They are so frequently shifting their place of residence": land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts /Jean O'Brien
11 Legitimacies, Indian identities and the law: the politics of sex and the creation of history in colonial New England /Ann Marie Plane
12 Images of aboriginal childhood: contested governance in the Canadian West to 1850 /Russell Smandych and Anne McGillivray
13 Authority under challenge: Pikampul land and Queen Victoria's law during the British invasion of Australia /Heather Goodall
14 The genocide policy in English
Karifuna relations in the seventeenth century /Hilary Beckles
15 William Knibb and the constitution of the new Black subject /Catherine Hall
16 "When the saints came marching in": the Anti
Slavery Society and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean /Madhavi Kale
17 North American experience and British missionary encounters in Africa and the Pacific, c. 1800
50 /Andrew Porter
18 Losing faith in the civilizing mission: the premature decline of humanitarian liberalism at the Cape, 1840
60 /Andrew Bank
Index.