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Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The identities of Irish Catholics or Highland Scots who took part in the imperial venture abroad were subject to constant renegotiation. In the process, the indigenous peoples of North America, the Caribbean, the Cape, Australia, and New Zealand were forced to redefine their own identities. Although the encounter was far from equal, it was by no means simple or monolithicThis collection explores the many complex ways in which identities were forged within Britain and among indigenous peoples through a process of collision and compromise. Contributions from Africa, Australia, and both sides of the Atlantic deal with different aspects of these encounters-for example, "Native Americans and Early Modern Concepts of Race" and "Hunting and the Politics of Masculinity in Cherokee Treaty-making, 1763-1775." Empire and Others provides a valuable study that will be of particular interest to students of Colonial American history and early modern British history.Contributors to the volume include Philip Morgan, Christopher Bayly, Andrew Porter, Hilary Beckles, and Peter Way.
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Empire and others: British encounters with indigenous peoples, 1600-1850 Edited by Martin Daunton U"iversily of Cambridge and Rick Halpern U",'versily College umdon " Martin Daunton, Rick Halpern and contributors, 1999 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rightS reserved. Published in the UK in 1999 b y Uel Press UCL Press Limited Taylor & Francis Group 1 Gunpowder Square London EC4A 3DF 325 Chestnut Street 8th Floor Philadelphia PA 19106 USA The name of University College London (Uel) is a regsi tered trade mark used by UeL Press with the consent of the owner. ISBN, 1-85728-991-9 HB British Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book IS available from the Dritish Library. Printed and bound at T. J. International, Padstow, UK Univ.-Bibl. Bamberg Contents Acknowledgements Notes on contributors 1 Vlll x Introduction: British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire 1 Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern 2 The British and indigenous peoples, 1760-1860: power, perception arId identity 19 c. A. Bayly 3 Encounters between British and "indigenous" peoples, c. 1500-c. 1800 42 Philip D. Morgan 4 Native Americans and early modern concepts oj race 79 KathJeen Brown 5 Praying with the enemy: Daniel Gookin, King Philip's War and the dangers oj intercultural mediatorship Louise A. Breen 101 CONTENTS 6 The cutting edge of culture: British soldiers encounter Native Americans in the French and Indiml war 123 Peter Way 7 Protecting trade throl
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