Savages within the empire : representations of American Indians in eighteenth-century Britain /
Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts, including newspapers, imperial p...
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| Idioma: | anglès |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Col·lecció: | Oxford historical monographs.
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