Preface
Introduction
Ch 1: Cycles of Conquest and Colonization
Ch 2: Scots and Indians in a Changing World
Ch 3: Savage Peoples and Civilizing Powers
Ch4: Warriors and Soldiers
Ch 5: Highland Traders and Indian Hunters
Ch 6: Highland Men and Indian Families
Ch 7: Clearances and Removals
Ch 8: Highland Settlers and Indian Lands
Ch 9: Empires, Myths, and New Traditions
Epilogue: History, Heritage, and Identity
Colin G. Calloway is Professor of History, Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies, and chair of the Native American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. His many books include The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America and One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark.
"Calloway's book makes for thought-provoking reading for all
students and scholars interested in the cultural impact of imperial
expansion."--Troy Bickham, The American Historical Review
"Satisfying as a rigorous treatment of a historical question
hitherto approached only in piecemeal manner, Calloway's book also
elucidates how the descendants of those displaced by early modern
empires have continued to find new ways of understanding their
ancestors' experience."--John G. Reid, The Journal of American
History
"Calloway's study offers a compelling historical portrait of two
groups struggling to maintain their homeland and cultural
identities amid the turmoil and confusion unleashed by Euroamerican
imperialism."--Kevin T. Barksdale, Virginia Magazine of History &
Biography
"White People, Indians, and Highlanders deserves a readership a
readership interested in colonialism and ethnic identities on both
sides of the Atlantic. With brilliant insights from the literatures
and experiences of both Scottish and Native American studies,
Calloway demonstrates the value of placing Native American and
Scottish history in a much wider context than they normally
appear."--Andrew K. Frank, Southwest Journal of Culture
"White People, Highlanders, and Indians is a welcome addition to
studies of the colonial experience. Equally at home in the
Highlands and in Indian Country, in the imperial capitals of London
and Washington, D.C., Colin Calloway brings to light a fascinating,
colorful world that sets side by side Gaelic and Iroquois, breech
cloths and kilts, 'Removals' and 'Clearances,' even today's
Highland festivals and Indian powwows. Among the book's virtues is
its
awareness that, while Highlanders and Indians are comparable in
illuminating and important ways, their histories were also
profoundly different--in illuminating and important ways."--James
H. Merrell, Vassar
College
"A fascinating study that successfully compares in an insightful
and original way the experience of both Highland Scots and American
Indians; accessible and perceptive, it makes a significant
contribution to Atlantic and imperial history, as well to the
remarkable story of these two peoples."--Tom Devine, University of
Edinburgh
"In this fine study Colin Calloway has punctured many of the
stereotypes that have often followed Scottish Highlanders and
American Indians like persistent shadows. Calloway has thrust these
peoples to the forefront of history by evoking the commonalities of
their past and drawing their lives together through a pageant of
stories that recall the tales of early storytellers, both
Highlander and Indian, who once held forth on long winter
nights."--Margaret
Connell Szasz, author of Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans:
Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
"Calloway reminds us how much the past remains within the present;
hence the identities claimed by Scots, Indians, and Indian Scots
today have been forged by their colonial experiences, their
uprooting, and their many encounters with each other from the
seventeenth century forward."--Margaret Connell Szaz, Journal of
British Studies
"By situating the story of Indians and Highlanders in teh larger
Atlantic world of empire building, Calloway makes a
tought-provoking case for his argument of similitude...A fine
example of comparative and Atlantic world history."--Montana: The
Magazine of Southern History
"An interesting and illuminating read."--Virginia Quarterly
Review
"No specialist in early Indian history can approach Calloway's
combination of diversity of subject matter, scholarly output, and
quality...Calloway's discussion of the parallel and divergent
colonial experiences of Indians and Scottish Highlanders and his
treatment of the two peoples' many encounters in North America will
be appreciated by anyone interested in empires and native
peoples."--Joshua Piker, Journal of Social History
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