Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
A collection of essays dealing with British expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. An introduction surveys British imperial history, providing a context for
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to cap
This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions experienced themselves as “the other” or were perceived and desc
The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - cont