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Aristocratic Encounters

Aristocratic Encounters
European Travelers and North American Indians

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  • Date Published: April 2001
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521003605

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  • Aristocratic Encounters, first published in 1999, relates how an aristocratic discourse on American Indians took shape in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Titled and educated French and German visitors to North America, mindful of the French Revolution, developed a new belief in their affinity with the warrior elites of Indian societies, whom they viewed as fellow aristocrats. The book includes chapters on major figures, such as Chateaubriand and de Tocqueville, and on lesser, often instructive, travelers. For European historians, the book offers fresh evidence for the creation of a post-Revolutionary 'aristocratic' culture through overseas travel. To the interdisciplinary audience of readers interested in colonial encounters, it opens up a Romantic vision of aristocrats from two worlds struggling to defend their code of valor and honor in an age of democratic politics. Aristocratic Encounters is a contribution to a burgeoning form of historical writing; it moves across national boundaries to ask how Europeans understood cultures vastly different from their own.

    • Concentrates on American Indians as the dramatic focus of European-American encounters
    • Analyzes European appropriations of native cultures
    • Argues that a post-French Revolution 'aristocratic' culture was created
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    • Date Published: April 2001
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521003605
    • length: 192 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 11 mm
    • weight: 0.29kg
    • contains: 17 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Part I. From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: France and American Indians 1682–1815
    1. Indians in the French Enlightenment
    2. Chateaubriand and the fiction of Native Aristocrats
    Part II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815–48
    3. Critics and nostalgics
    4. Tocqueville and the sociology of native aristocrats
    Part III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers:
    5. Immigrants and educated observers
    6. Maximilian and the ethnography of Native Aristocrats
    Epilogue: a world of new aristocrats.

  • Author

    Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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