Introduction: the Indian Atlantic Tim Fulford and Kevin Hutchings; 1. The site of the struggle: colonialism, violence, and the captive body Robbie Richardson; 2. 'I shall tear off their scalps, and make cups of their skulls': American Indians in the eighteenth-century British press Troy Bickham; 3. Savages and men of feeling: North American Indians in Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Henry Mackenzie's The Man of the World Lise Sorenson; 4. Sir William Johnson's interest: Indian land and transatlantic power Alan Taylor; 5. Representatives and representation: Southern Indians in eighteenth-century Britain Stephanie Pratt; 6. 'And the truest schools for civilisation are the forests of America': John O'Keeffe's The Basket Maker and Robert Bage's Hermsprong Helen Carr; 7. Theory and experience: Peter Fidler and the Transatlantic Indian Ted Binnema; 8. The sound of the shaman: scientists and Indians in the Arctic Tim Fulford; 9. William Wordsworth, William Cullen Bryant, and the poetics of American Indian removal Joel Pace; 10. 'The Nobleness of the Hunter's Deeds': British Romanticism, Christianity, and Ojibwa culture in George Copway's Recollections of a Forest Life Kevin Hutchings; 11. The savage tour: Indian performance across the Atlantic Joshua David Bellin; Index.

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