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

by Nancy Shoemaker

Book Overview

The histories told about American Indian and European encounters on the frontiers of North America are usually about cultural conflict. This book takes a different tack by looking at how much Indians and Europeans had in common. In six chapters, this book compares Indian and European ideas about land, government, recordkeeping, international alliances, gender, and the human body. Focusing on eastern North America in the 18th century, up through the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195307100
• ISBN13: 9780195307108
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"