Warfare Trade And The Indies In British Literature 1652 1771

Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652–1771 demonstrates how British travel narratives of the long eighteenth century distinguished between Mughal and American “Indians.” Through a New Historical and postcolonial lens, it argues that the distinction between East and West “Indians” was widely recognized and shaped British people’s tendency to view Mughal Indians as similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans while they disdained native populations in the Americas. Drawing on representations of “Indians” in Peter Heylyn’s critically neglected 1652 Cosmographie as well as representations in the works of canonical literary authors such as John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Henry Mackenzie, this monograph provides a more nuanced account of the origins and (d)evolution of “Indian” stereotypes than scholars have to date. A text committed to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence, Peter Craft’s Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652–1771 proposes a modification of Saidian postcolonial theory that better applies to texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Since the 16th century, amphibious warfare has been central to British strategy; the thinking behind it and the way it was conducted colour British political and cultural attitudes to this day.

Lucinda Williams wakes up from a coma weeks after a deadly car accident in the town of Bedlam. While coming to terms with this tragedy, a mysterious presence compounds her despair by tormenting her as she dreams. Meanwhile, Valarie Harper, a real estate agent in Bedlam, is haunted by a property she cannot get rid of, and finds herself sickened by fear the house impresses upon her and potential buyers. Valarie and Ethan Trawler, a detective investigating multiple mysterious deaths in Bedlam, set out to investigate the insidious history of the house. When the mysteries of Lucinda’s dreams converge with Valarie and Ethan’s investigation of the house, they will be forced to face an evil that will threaten their very souls in Amorphous, a novel by Peter Craft. Buy on Amazon books today!