{"product_id":"indigenous-london-by-coll-thrush-9780300284218","title":"Indigenous London","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travellers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"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, \u003cem\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLondon is famed both as the ancient centre of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In \u003cem\u003eIndigenous London\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 travelled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46791587889388,"sku":"9780300284218","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/24839923482294.jpg?v=1756984685","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/indigenous-london-by-coll-thrush-9780300284218","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}