Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind
English | ISBN: 0520062272 | 1988 | 272 pages | EPUB | 0,6 MB
First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented in the present life with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and unused postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's Savagism and Civilization is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the politic pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the historic, poetry, and novels of the 18th and seasonable 19th centuries, Professor Pearce traces the clash between the idea of the noble savage and the will to Christianize the heathen and appropriate their land, which ended by the near extermination of Native American culure.
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