White savage : William Johnson and the invention of America

White savage : William Johnson and the invention of America / Fintan O'Toole.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Toole, Fintan, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Johnson, William, > Sir, > 1715-1774.
Johnson, William, > Sir, > 1715-1774 > Relations with Indians.
Six Nations > History.
Pioneers > United States > Biography.
Soldiers > United States > Biography.
Irish > United States > Biography.
Colonial administrators > New York (State) > Biography.
Iroquois Indians > History > 18th century.
New York (State) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
New York (State) > History > French and Indian War, 1755-1763.
Table of Contents:
  • Tears, throat, heart
  • Spectres and apparitions
  • Amphibians
  • 'Most onruly and streperous'
  • An outlandish man
  • How the white mane came to America
  • The holy well
  • Raw head and bloody bones
  • The power of absence
  • Force, motion and equilibrium
  • The late emperor of Morocco
  • Master of ceremonies
  • An upstart of yesterday
  • The precarious salvo of applause
  • Unspeakable perplexity
  • The largest pipe in America
  • Miss Molly
  • Rowing against the current
  • Sir William and his myrmidons
  • Niagara Falls
  • Barbarians
  • Seeds worth sowing
  • 'Intoxicated with providential success'
  • A stop to their very being
  • What the great turtle said
  • Many civil things
  • An imaginary line
  • The patriarch
  • Negroes' handcuffs
  • Irish dreamtime
  • A death foretold
  • The end of the world
  • The afterlife.

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