Format:
1 Online-Ressource (320 p)
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33 b-w illus
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780300249279
Series Statement:
The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: On Lives and Empire -- 1. The Warrior-Diplomat: Ostenaco of the Appalachians -- 2. The Artist-Philosopher: Reynolds in Britain -- 3. A Cherokee Envoy and the Portrait That Failed -- 4. Home to a New World: Ostenaco’s American Revolution, -- 5. Man on a Mission: Mai from Ra‘iatea -- 6. The Master Ascendant: Reynolds Becomes President -- 7. A Pacific Celebrity and the Portrait That Worked -- 8. Return of the Traveler: Mai’s Last Voyage -- Epilogue: On Dying in the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Content:
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco and the Raiatean Mai. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, his confrontation with conquest and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook’s imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is a new history of Reynolds, growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain’s art world and yet remaining ambivalent about his nation’s expansionist trajectory
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300243062
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9780300243062
Language:
English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300249279
