The idea of the indian: Invention and perpetuation
The Spanish legacy of name and imagery
French and English terms and images
Significance of Indian as a general category and conception
Persisting fundamental images and themes
From religion to anthropology: The genealogy of the scientific image of the Indian
Christian cosmogony and the problem of Indian origins
Environmentalism and the varieties of the human species in enlightenment thought
The idea of progress and the state of savagery in the history of mankind
Evolutionism and primitive peoples in nineteenth-century anthropology
"Scientific" racism and human diversity in nineteenth-century social sciences
Cultural anthropology and the modern conception of Indians
Imagery in literature, art and philosophy: The Indian in white imagination and ideology
European primitivism, the noble savage, and the American Indian
Puritanism, the wilderness and savagery as divine metaphors
The Indian and the rise of an American art and literature
The western and the Indian in popular culture
From racial stereotype to "Realism" in the literary Indian
Imagery and white policy: The Indian as justification and rationale
The colonial foundations of white Indian policy: theory
The colonial foundations of white Indian policy: practice
Early United States policy: Expansion with honor
Expansion with honor: Problems in practice
Democracy, American liberalism, and Indian policy in the nineteenth century
Democracy and removal: Defining the status of the Indian.
