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- catalog abstract "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 societies, whom they viewed as fellow aristocrats. The book alternates between chapters on major figures such as Chateaubriand and Tocqueville and chapters on numerous lesser, but often more 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. This book differs from other books about the European vision of the United States in its concentration on American Indians as the dramatic focus of European-American encounters. Aristocratic encounters is a contribution to a burgeoning transatlantic, and even transnational, form of historical writing; it moves across national boundaries to ask how Europeans understood cultures vastly different from their own.".
- catalog contributor b10859997.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "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 societies, whom they viewed as fellow aristocrats. The book alternates between chapters on major figures such as Chateaubriand and Tocqueville and chapters on numerous lesser, but often more instructive, travelers. For European historians, the book offers fresh evidence for the creation of a post-Revolutionary "aristocratic" culture through overseas travel.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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. This book differs from other books about the European vision of the United States in its concentration on American Indians as the dramatic focus of European-American encounters. Aristocratic encounters is a contribution to a burgeoning transatlantic, and even transnational, form of historical writing; it moves across national boundaries to ask how Europeans understood cultures vastly different from their own.".
- catalog description "pt. 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 -- pt. II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815-1848. 3. Critics and Nostalgics. 4. Tocqueville and the Sociology of Native Aristocrats -- pt. III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers. 5. Immigrants and Educated Observers. 6. Maximilian of Wied and the Ethnography of Native Aristocrats. Epilogue: A World of New Aristocrats.".
- catalog extent "xi, 179 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521640903 (hardbound)".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "North America.".
- catalog subject "970/.004/97 21".
- catalog subject "Aristocracy (Social class) Europe.".
- catalog subject "E98.P99 L54 1998".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Public opinion.".
- catalog subject "Public opinion Europe.".
- catalog subject "Romanticism Europe.".
- catalog subject "Travelers North America.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 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 -- pt. II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815-1848. 3. Critics and Nostalgics. 4. Tocqueville and the Sociology of Native Aristocrats -- pt. III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers. 5. Immigrants and Educated Observers. 6. Maximilian of Wied and the Ethnography of Native Aristocrats. Epilogue: A World of New Aristocrats.".
- catalog title "Aristocratic encounters : European travelers and North American Indians / Harry Liebersohn.".
- catalog type "text".