Introduction: Travelling through empire

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents xi
3. Illustrations xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Travelling through empire 3
6. “Of pleasing Countenance and pleasant manners”: John Norton’s Transatlantic voyages 19
7. Missionary Moments and Transatlantic Celebrity, 1830–1860: The Anishinaabeg of Upper Canada 57
8. Intimate Entanglements within Empire 98
9. Intimate Networks and Maps of Domesticity: The Northwest Fur Trade 129
10. Playing “Indian”: Ojibwe Performers, London, 1840s 174
11. Performances and Politics at Empire’s Height 206
12. An Ending – and an Epilogue 235
13. Notes 249
14. Bibliography 293
15. Index 321