Savagism and civilization : a study of the Indian and the American mind / Roy Harvey Pearce.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearce, Roy Harvey, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public opinion--United States.

Public opinion.

Indians of North America--Public opinion.

Indians of North America.

Indians in literature.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1988]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

I. Spirituals And Temporals: The Indian In Colonial Civilization

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

VIII. After A Century Of Dishonor: The Idea Of Civilization

Postscript

Index

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The Savages of America. 1953.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

9786612355363

9781282355361

1282355368

9780520908673

0520908678

9780585079158

0585079153

OCLC:

630527923