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Modernity and Its Other
Robert Sayre
其他書名
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2017-12-01
主題Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American StudiesHistory / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
ISBN08032809719780803280977
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=P4o6DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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. John de 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.