| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 310 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity |
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Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
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| Contents |
The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons -- Interlude One: A Devil's Looking Glass, circa 1676 -- Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London 1580-1630 -- Interlude Two: A Debtor's Petition 1676 -- Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder 1710-1765 -- Interlude Three: Atlantes 1761 -- "Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt": Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City 1766-1785 -- Interlude Four: A Lost Museum 1793 -- That Kind Urbanity of Manner: Navigating Ritual in Maori and Kanaka Maoli London 1806-1866 -- Interlude Five: A Hat Factory, circa 1875 -- Civilization Itself Consents: Disciplining Bodies in Imperial Suburbia 1861-1914 -- Interlude Six: A Notebook 1929 -- The City of Long Memory: Remembering and Reclaiming Indigenous London 1982-2013 -- Epilogue: The Other Indigenous London -- Appendix: Self-Guided Encounters with Indigenous London |
| Summary |
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city and how Indigenous people were central to that process |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- England -- London -- History
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Social conditions
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Indians of North America
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Indigenes Volk
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Besucher
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Gefangener
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Kolonialismus
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Kulturkontakt
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History.
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| SUBJECT |
London (England) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078205
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London (England) -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
England -- London
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London
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780300224863 |
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0300224869 |
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