The Saint-Napoleon
Subtitle: celebrations of sovereignty in nineteenth-century France
By: Sudhir Hazareesingh.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Influence.; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Monuments.; Political culture -- France -- History -- 19th century.; Political customs and rites -- France -- 19th century.; Bonapartism -- France -- History -- 19th century.; Festivals -- France.; Symbolism in politics -- France.; France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870.
Description: "Okfuskee is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee, an eighteenth-century Creek town, to reframe standard narratives of both Native and American experiences." "This detailed perspective on local life in a Native society allows us to truly understand both the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses.

At the same time, by comparing the Okfuskees' experiences to those of their contemporaries in colonial British America, the book provides a nuanced discussion of the ways in which Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other."

"Piker examines the diplomatic ties that developed between the Okfuskees and their British neighbors; the economic implications of the Okfuskees' shifting world view; the integration of British traders into the town; and the shifting gender and generational relationships in the community. By both providing an in-depth investigation of a colonial-era Indian town in Indian country and placing the Okfuskees within the processes central to early American history, Piker offers a Native history with important implications for American history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.