Indigenous London : native travelers at the heart of empire / Coll Thrush.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thrush, Coll, Author.

Series:

Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.

The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--England--London--History.

Indians of North America.

London (England)--History.

London (England).

London (England)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Maps

1. The Unhidden City. Interlude Londons

Interlude One.: In A Devil's Looking Glass, circa 1576

2. Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London 1580-1630

Interlude Two: A Debtor's Petition, 1676

3. Alive from America

Interlude Three: Atlantes, 1761

4. "Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt"

Interlude Four: A Lost Museum, 1793

5. That Kind Urbanity of Manner

Interlude Five: A Hat Factory, circa 1875

6. Civilization Itself Consents

Interlude Six: A Notebook, 1929

7. The City of Long Memory

Epilogue: The Other Indigenous London

Appendix: Self-Guided Encounters with Indigenous London

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300224863

0300224869

OCLC:

959713218