{"product_id":"a-strange-likeness-becoming-red-and-white-in-eighteenthcentury-north-america-9780195167924","title":"A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe relationship between American Indians and Europeans on Americas frontiers is typically characterized as a series of cultural conflicts and misunderstandings based on a vast gulf of difference. Nancy Shoemaker turns this notion on its head  showing that Indians and Europeans shared common beliefs about their most fundamental realities--land as national territory  government  record-keeping  international alliances  gender  and the human body. Before they even met  Europeans and Indians shared perceptions of a landscape marked by mountains and rivers  a physical world in which the sun rose and set every day  and a human body with its own distinctive shape. They also shared in their ability to make sense of it all and to invent new  abstract ideas based on the tangible and visible experiences of daily life. Focusing on eastern North America up through the end of the Seven Years War  Shoemaker closely reads incidents  letters  and recorded speeches from the Iroquois and Creek confederacies  the Cherokee Nation  and other Native groups alongside British and French sources  paying particular attention to the language used in cross-cultural conversation. Paradoxically  the more American Indians and Europeans came to know each other  the more they came to see each other as different. By the end of the 18th century  Shoemaker argues  they abandoned an initial willingness to recognize in each other a common humanity and instead developed new ideas rooted in the conviction that  by custom and perhaps even by nature  Native Americans and Europeans were peoples fundamentally at odds. In her analysis  Shoemaker reveals the 18th century roots of enduring stereotypes Indians developed about Europeans  as well as stereotypes Europeans created about Indians. This powerful and eloquent interpretation questions long-standing assumptions  revealing the strange likenesses among the inhabitants of colonial North America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648095117365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195167929","price":928.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195167924.jpg?v=1781709318","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-strange-likeness-becoming-red-and-white-in-eighteenthcentury-north-america-9780195167924","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}