Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind
Author:   Roy Harvey Pearce ,  Arnold Krupat
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520062276


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   12 May 1988
Format:   Paperback
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Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind


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First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended with the near extermination of Native American culure.

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Author:   Roy Harvey Pearce ,  Arnold Krupat
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.60cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9780520062276


ISBN 10:   0520062272
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   12 May 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

FOREWORD: Arnold Krupat PREFACE PART 1: Antecedents and Origins, 1609-1777 I Spirituals and Temporals: The Indian in Colonial Civilization PART 2: The Life and Death of the American Savage, 1777-1851 II A Melancholy Fact: The Indian in American Life III Character and Circumstance: The Idea of Savagism IV The Zero of Human Society: The Idea of the Savage V An Impassable Gulf: The Social and Historical Image VI The Virtues of Nature: The Image in Drama and Poetry VII Red Gifts and White: The Image in Fiction PART 3: Afterthoughts, 1851- VIII After a Century of Dishonor: The Idea of Civilization POSTSCRIPT INDEX

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