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The English embrace of the American Indians = ideas of humanity in early America /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The English embrace of the American Indians/ by Alan S. Rome.
Reminder of title:	ideas of humanity in early America /
Author:	Rome, Alan S.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2017.,
Description:	ix, 237 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	History. -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46197-7
ISBN:	9783319461977

The English embrace of the American Indians = ideas of humanity in early America /
Rome, Alan S.

The English embrace of the American Indiansideas of humanity in early America /[electronic resource] :by Alan S. Rome. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - ix, 237 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Savage Mind: Metaphysics and the Humanity of the Indian -- 3. Savages in the Streams of Time: The Indian in English Historical Consciousness -- 4. A Digression on Air: Race and Climate in Early America -- 5. Powhatan's Two Bodies: Civil Savage, Savage Colonist -- 6. Killing with Kindness: The Tragedy of Benevolence -- 7. Conclusion.

This book makes a wide, conceptual challenge to the theory that the English of the colonial period thought of Native Americans as irrational and subhuman, dismissing any intimations to the contrary as ideology or propaganda. It makes a controversial intervention by demonstrating that the true tragedy of colonial relations was precisely the genuineness of benevolence, and not its cynical exploitation or subordination to other ends that was often the compelling force behind conflict and suffering. It was because the English genuinely believed that the Indians were their equals in body and mind that they fatally tried to embrace them. From an intellectual exploration of the abstract ideas of human rights in colonial America and the grounded realities of the politics that existed there to a narrative of how these ideas played out in relations between the two peoples in the early years of the colony, this book challenges and subverts current understanding of English colonial politics and religion.

ISBN: 9783319461977

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-46197-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: E188 / .R66 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 973.2

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