Machine generated contents note: 1. The New World in England before the Eighteenth Century -- 2. Four from Iroquoia: The Appeal of Savagery -- 3. Seven from the Cherokee, Nine from the Creeks -- 4. Ostenaco and the Losing of America -- 5. Passing the Mantle: From America to Oceania -- 6. Mai and the Finding of Oceania -- 7. Palauans, Hawaiians, Tahitians: Diminishing Oddities -- 8. Bennelong from Res nullius: The Decline of Savagery
Summary
In eighteenth-century Britain, the appearance of "savages" from the New World provoked intense fascination. Though such people had been arriving periodically for decades, it was only then that the "savage visitor" became a sensation. Using a wealth of sources, Kate Fullagar shows why the phenomenon grew and how it related to bitter debates over the morality of imperial expansion
