Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians

Abstract

Introduction Part I. From Neoclassicism to Romanticism: France and American Indians 1682-1815 1. Indians in the French Enlightenment 2. Chateaubriand and the fiction of Native Aristocrats Part II. Ending a Tradition: The French Romantic Travelers, 1815-48 3. Critics and nostalgics 4. Tocqueville and the sociology of native aristocrats Part III. Founding a Tradition: The German Romantic Travelers: 5. Immigrants and educated observers 6. Maximilian and the ethnography of Native Aristocrats Epilogue: a world of new aristocrats.