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Colin G. Calloway

White People, Indians, and Highlanders

Tribal People and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America

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In nineteenth century paintings, the proud Indian warrior and the Scottish Highland chief appear in similar ways--colorful and wild, righteous and warlike, the last of their kind. Earlier accounts depict both as barbarians, lacking in culture and in need of civilization. By the nineteenth century, intermarriage and cultural contact between the two--described during the Seven Years' War as cousins--was such that Cree, Mohawk, Cherokee, and Salish were often spoken with Gaelic accents.In this imaginative work of imperial and tribal history, Colin Calloway examines why these two seemingly wildly disparate groups appear to have so much in common.… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-19-988764-4
  • EAN: 9780199887644
  • Produktnummer: 18393136
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 31'749 KB

Über den Autor


Colin G. Calloway is Professor of History, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, and chair of the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. His many books include The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America and One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark.

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