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Loading... Indigenous London : native travelers at the heart of empire (edition 2016)by Coll Thrush
Work InformationIndigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) by Coll Thrush
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book, while perhaps theoretically lacking in some ways (Thrush could have been more rigorous in his use of settler colonialism as a lens,) was very, very readable, and really did a great job of exploring London as a site of spectacle for both English people and Indigenous people. Single chapters would work really, really well in an undergraduate course, and the stories that Thrush tells in his book are really a gift. I really enjoyed this book a lot as a reader, though obviously there are critiques to be made, and I really recommend it to people who are looking for easy-to-read good Indigenous history. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)942.100497History and Geography Europe England and Wales London Historical periods; Modified standard subdvisions of London Modified standard subdvisions of London Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups North American native peoplesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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