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Empires and Indigenous peoples

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  • HIS028000
  • HIS037000
  • DDC: 305.800937 (Assigner: dlc)
  • LCC: E91 .E528 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

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Summary

"The Romans who established their rule on three continents and the Europeans who first established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and rigorous in its scholarship, Empires and Indigenous Peoples expands our understanding of their historical parallels and raises general questions about the nature of the various imperial encounters. In this book, leading scholars of ancient Roman and early anglophone North America examine the mutual perceptions of the Indigenous and the imperial actors. They investigate the rhetoric of civilization and barbarism and its expression in military policies. Indigenous resistance, survival, and adaptation form a major theme. The essays demonstrate that power relations were endlessly adjusted, identities were framed and reframed, and new mutual knowledge was produced by all participants. Over time, cultures were transformed across the board on political, social, religious, linguistic, ideological, and economic levels. The developments were complex, with numerous groups enmeshed in webs of aggression, opposition, cooperation, and integration. Readers will see how Indigenous and imperial identities evolved in Roman and American lands. Finally, the authors consider how American views of Roman activity influenced the development of American imperial expansion and accompanying Indigenous critiques. They show how Roman, imperial North American, and Indigenous experiences have contributed to American notions of race, religion, and citizenship, and given shape to problems of social inclusion and exclusion today"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction. More than parallel lives? / Michael Maas -- The exterminating angel : the Roman imperial state and its indigenous peoples / Brent Shaw -- Rereading Indian war : protecting indigenous homelands and colonial memories in North America / Anne F. Hyde -- Elements of Roman imperial ethnography : Julius Caesar and Justinian / Michael Maas -- Triangulating colonialisms in England's restoration-era empire / Daniel K. Richter -- The classical barbarian : a discontinuous history / Greg Woolf -- Romano-Barbarian Treaties and the redefinition of identities in late antiquity / Audrey Becker -- Appropriating the discourse about "Barbarians" in the early Medieval West / Walter Pohl -- The Scythian and the jellyfish : Synesius's On kingship and late Roman variations of the Scythian theme / Susanna Elm -- Where the wild things are : the invention of barbarian space / Michael Kulikowski -- Representing native women in Roman art / Mary T. Boatwright -- Multilingualism, language management, and first encounters in the Roman and American colonial experience / Alex Mullen -- Natives naming themselves? : Rome's veterans speak / Richard J. A. Talbert -- Cherokee civilized pasts, Cherokee civilized futures / Julie L. Reed -- Christian-Indian slaves and "savages" : an element of race-making in the North American British colonies / David Silverman -- The many families of Maria James : Osage captivity, Cherokee civilization, and missionary diplomacy during the long removal / Rose Stremlau -- The Roman origins of Henry Knox's civilization policy / Nancy Shoemaker -- "Render unto Caesar" : Roman allegories in the Indian removal debates / Christina Snyder.

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:17:43.219804+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23633347

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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