Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians

by Harry Liebersohn

Book Overview

Aristocratic Encounters, first published in 1999, relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated French and German visitors to North America, mindful of the French Revolution, developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies, whom they viewed as fellow aristocrats. The book includes chapters on major figures, such as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521003601
• ISBN13: 9780521003605
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"