ARISTOCRATIC ENCOUNTERS by Liebersohn, Harry ISBN 0521003601
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European aristocrats visiting North America developed an affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies.
Aristocratic Encounters relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated French and German visitors to North America, mindful of the French Revolution, developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies, whom they viewed as fellow aristocrats. The book includes chapters on major figures, such as Chateaubriand and Tocqueville, and on lesser, often instructive, travelers. For European historians, the book offers fresh evidence for the creation of a post-Revolutionary 'aristocratic' culture through overseas travel. To the interdisciplinary audience of readers interested in colonial encounters, it opens up a Romantic vision of aristocrats from two worlds struggling to defend their code of valor and honor in an age of democratic politics. Aristocratic Encounters is a contribution to a burgeoning form of historical writing; it moves across national boundaries to ask how Europeans understood cultures vastly different from their own.
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[edit] Title
ARISTOCRATIC ENCOUNTERS
[edit] Author
Liebersohn, Harry
[edit] ISBN
0521003601
[edit] Published
05/02/2001
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
16.99 (GBP)
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16.65 (GBP)
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