A Strange Likeness
Subtitle: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: February 25, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195167924
First sentence: In 1650, several Indian guides led a party of Englishmen into the interior of Virginia so that they could establish trade relations with the Tuscaroras.
Description: When American Indians and Europeans met on the frontiers of eighteenth-century eastern North America, they had many shared ideas about human nature, political life, and social relations. But instead of finding fellowship in their common humanity, both Indians and Europeans emphasized their difference, increasingly so as the eighteenth century progressed. By the century's end, they had come to see themselves as people so different in their customs and natures that they appeared to be each other's opposite.