Aristocratic Encounters - European Travelers and North American Indians

Klappentext This 1999 book relates how European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies. Zusammenfassung This 1999 book relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated European visitors to North America! with the background of the French Revolution in mind! developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: France and American Indians 1682-1815; 1. Indians in the French Enlightenment; 2. Chateaubriand and the fiction of Native Aristocrats; Part II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815-48; 3. Critics and nostalgics; 4. Tocqueville and the sociology of native aristocrats; Part III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers: 5. Immigrants and educated observers; 6. Maximilian and the ethnography of Native Aristocrats; Epilogue: a world of new aristocrats.

Product details

• Authors: Harry Liebersohn, Harry (University of Illinois Liebersohn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.02.2001
• EAN: 9780521003605
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00360-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic