A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America

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Label

A strange likeness : becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America

Title remainder

becoming red and white in eighteenth-century North America

Statement of responsibility

Nancy Shoemaker

Creator

• Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958-

Subject

• Europeans -- United States -- Attitudes
• Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- 18th century
• Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
• Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans
• Indians of North America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
• United States -- Discovery and exploration
• United States -- Race relations
• Whites -- Race identity -- Europe
• Culture conflict -- North America -- History -- 18th century

Genre

• Sources

Language

eng

Summary

When American Indians and Europeans met on the frontiers of 18th-century eastern North America, they had many shared ideas about human nature, political life, and social relations. This title is about how they came to see themselves as people so different in their customs and natures that they appeared to be each other's opposite

Dewey number

305.897

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized