The Saint-Napoleon

Name: The Saint-Napoleon
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh
ISBN: 0674013417

by Sudhir Hazareesingh (2003)

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"Okfuskee is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee, an eighteenth-century Creek town, to reframe standard narratives of both Native and American experiences." "This detailed perspective on local life in a Native society allows us to truly understand both the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. At the same time, by comparing the Okfuskees' experiences to those of their contemporaries in colonial British America, the book provides a nuanced discussion of the ways in which Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other." "Piker examines the diplomatic ties that developed between the Okfuskees and their British neighbors; the economic implications of the Okfuskees' shifting world view; the integration of British traders into the town; and the shifting gender and generational relationships in the community. By both providing an in-depth investigation of a colonial-era Indian town in Indian country and placing the Okfuskees within the processes central to early American history, Piker offers a Native history with important implications for American history."--Jacket.

Setting / LocationFrance

Story Era1800s / Victorian

Protagonist / CoreThe Saint-Napoleon Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Politics & Current Affairs History Political culture Monuments Political customs and rites Influence 1800s / Victorian

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