Savagism and civility : Indians and Englishmen in Colonial Virginia /
Publisher description: When the English settlers arrived in Virginia in 1607 they carried with them a fully developed mythology about native Indian cultures. This mythology was built around the body of English writing about America that began to appear in the 1550s, prior to any significant contact...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1980.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Paradise
- Ignoble savagism
- Bestiality
- Dependence
- Conversion
- Massacre
- Afterword.