Aristocratic Encounters

Harry Liebersohn

first published 1998 Cambridge University Press, 1998 179 pages

Aristocratic encounters: European travelers and North American Indians relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in French and German writing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated French and German visitors to North America, with the background of the French Revolution in mind, developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian so...

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Aristocratic Encounters paperback · 2001 · Cambridge University Press · 192 pages · 9780521003605
Aristocratic encounters edition · 1998 · Cambridge University Press · 179 pages

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