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An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries



"Thrush has certainly offered a powerful corrective to the usual geographies imagined for Indigenous people in the past, as well as a new layer to the palimpsest history of Britain's imperial capital."--Kate Fullagar, William and Mary Quarterly



London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London , historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city and how Indigenous people were central to that process.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Maps(p. xiii)
• 1 The Unhidden City: Imagining Indigenous Londons(p. 1)
• Interlude 1 A Devil's Looking Glass, circa 1576(p. 28)
• 2 Dawnland Telescopes: Making Colonial Knowledge in Algonquian London, 1580-1630(p. 33)
• Interlude 2 A Debtor's Petition, 1676(p. 62)
• 3 Alive from America: Indigenous Diplomacies and Urban Disorder, 1710-1765(p. 68)
• Interlude 3 Atlantes, 1761(p. 99)
• 4 "Such Confusion As I Never Dreamt": Indigenous Reasonings in an Unreasonable City, 1766-1785(p. 103)
• Interlude 4 A Lost Museum, 1793(p. 133)
• 5 That Kind Urbanity of Manner: Navigating Ritual in Maori and Kanaka Maoli London, 1806-1866(p. 139)
• Interlude 5 A Hat Factory, circa 1875(p. 169)
• 6 Civilization Itself Consents: Disciplining Bodies in Imperial Suburbia, 1861-1914(p. 173)
• Interlude 6 A Notebook, 1929(p. 204)
• 7 The City of Long Memory: Remembering and Reclaiming Indigenous London, 1982-2013(p. 209)
• Epilogue: The Other Indigenous London(p. 238)
• Appendix: Self-Guided Encounters with Indigenous London(p. 245)
• Notes(p. 259)
• Index(p. 303)

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CHOICE Review

Starting with the first, occluded account of visitors from an ill-defined "Newe ffounde Ile land" in 1501 and ending in the near present, Thrush (Univ. of British Columbia) repositions Indigenous peoples, transforming them from prime exhibits in a London raree-show to breathing, critically thinking, and, quite often, formally appointed ambassadors from their own lands. Not many of the visitors left Western-style documents, but Thrush highlights the visitors as representatives of their respective governments and not as the subaltern curios for which contemporary Londoners took them. Although the author does not comment on the fact, these London visitors primarily came from the lightest-skinned of empire's Indigenes; even so, the reproduced media drawings of the day depicted them as black, simian, and naked, whereas actual photos showed them as otherwise. Strikingly, just about none of the visitors achieved the ends of their official visits, for which all too many gave their lives. Painstaking research complemented by readable, engaging prose makes this local history an enjoyable read. Beyond entertainment, however, this book will be of use to historians of any of the included Indigenous group or individual histories treated (Native American and Maori). Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. --Barbara Alice Mann, University of Toledo

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Coll Thrush is professor of history at the University of British Columbia, where he is also affiliated with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. He is the author of Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific and Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place .