Poor indians, the: british missionaries, native americans and colonial sensibility
Auteur :
Stevens, Laura M.
Éditeur :
Stevens, Laura M.
ISBN :
9780812238129
Date de publication :
3 août 2004
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,9 cm
Poids :
562 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Missionary work, arising from a sense of pity, helped convince the British that they were a benevolent people. Stevens relates this to the rise of the cult of sensibility, when philosophers argued that humans were inherently good because they felt sorrow at the sign of suffering.