The English Embrace of the American Indians: Ideas of Humanity in Early America

by Alan S Rome

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319834665
• ISBN13: 9783319834665
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"