First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama, poetry, and novels of the 18th and early 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the conflict between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended with the near extermination of Native American culure.
First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce'...
Pearce presents a study of the concept of savagism as reflected in the American writings on Indians that appeared in political pamphlets, drama, poetry, and other writings.
Pearce presents a study of the concept of savagism as reflected in the American writings on Indians that appeared in political pamphlets, drama, po...
A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and formalist explication de texie toward a criticism which vitally engages the reader in what he reads and puts him m a position of judging himself and his culture, past and present.
Originally published in 1969.
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A collection of some of Pearce's best-known essays on historical criticism in which he suggests a way of going beyond positivist historiography and...
