Indigenous London

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27574186797
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Books
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25.00
book_author_name: 
Coll Thrush
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Yale University Press
published_date: 
06/01/2017
isbn: 
9780300206302
Merchant Product Cat path: 
Books > History > Historical events & topics > Social & cultural history
specifications: 
Coll Thrush|Hardback|Yale University Press|06/01/2017
Merchant Product Id: 
9780300206302
Book Description: 
An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city and how Indigenous people were central to that process.

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