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Title: Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America by Karen Ordahl Kupperman ISBN: 0-8014-8282-8 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: 13 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A long over due survey of precolonial stereotypes & myths.
Comment: In Indians & English Kupperman states ...in the New World,"Civility, especially among the lower orders, was fragile, hard won, and shallow rooted; as the poet Edmund Spenser remarked, 'It is but even the other daye, since England grewe Civill (p.219)." Thus many early "civilising" colonists were described as degenerate, and tending towards regression. Extreme measures were taken to promote order in Virginia, in 1610, for example. Fear and strict control were necessary according to informed colonial sources like John Rolfe and Sir Thomas Gates of Virginia. Early colonial reports indicated the belief that Americans (natives) would soon embrace European "civility" and Christianity. Yet duplicity of the colonials was implicit. This expectation of treachery by the early colonists was due to the European's assumptions that society and successful government is based on fear rather than cooperation. Of course, expected treachery begot betrayal. One of the comments reported to have been made by Miantonomi, a Narragansett sachem or chief, of Winthrop was "Did ever friends deal so with friends (p. 236)?" Elaborating on the theme of suspicion and fragmented government, Kupperman writes "At no time was there a single hegemonic voice in the Euramerican population (p. 239)." She demonstrates that European colonists and Native Americans developed a complex history of interactions from the beginning contacts in 1580 to the 1600's. Both viewed the other culture as fully human, she believes. However, problematic interactions may have occurred because of fear of eradication. Indians & English provides a hard look at precolonial stereotypic sources and propaganda, and counters myth in many instances. Painful as the bloody history may be to remember, light shed upon it may release new pathways of understanding and responsibility so needful to this time. Recommended reading for American studies students and others interested in this period of American history.
Nancy Lorraine, Reviewer
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Title: Facing East from Indian Country : A Native History of Early America by Daniel K. Richter ISBN: 0674011171 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Changes in the Land : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England by William Cronon ISBN: 0809016346 Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Middle Ground : Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 by Richard White, Frederick Hoxie, Neal Salisbury ISBN: 0521424607 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 27 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England 1500-1643 by Neal Salisbury ISBN: 0195034546 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: June, 1984 List Price(USD): $24.70 |
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Title: Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 Through the Stono Rebellion by Peter H. Wood ISBN: 0393314820 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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