Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. More than parallel lives? / Michael Maas -- The exterminating angel : the Roman imperial state and its indigenous peoples / Brent D. Shaw -- Rereading Indian war : protecting indigenous homelands and colonial memories in North America / Anne F. Hyde -- Elements of Roman imperial ethnography : Julius Caesar and Justinian / Michael Maas -- Triangulating colonialisms in England's restoration-era empire / Daniel K. Richter -- The classical barbarian : a discontinuous history / Greg Woolf -- Romano-Barbarian Treaties and the redefinition of identities in late antiquity / Audrey Becker -- Appropriating the discourse about "Barbarians" in the early Medieval West / Walter Pohl -- The Scythian and the jellyfish : Synesius's On kingship and late Roman variations of the Scythian theme / Susanna Elm -- Where the wild things are : the invention of barbarian space / Michael Kulikowski -- Representing native women in Roman art / Mary T. Boatwright -- Multilingualism, language management, and first encounters in the Roman and American colonial experience / Alex Mullen -- Natives naming themselves? : Rome's veterans speak / Richard J. A. Talbert -- Cherokee civilized pasts, Cherokee civilized futures / Julie L. Reed -- Christian-Indian slaves and "savages" : an element of race-making in the North American British colonies / David Silverman -- The many families of Maria James : Osage captivity, Cherokee civilization, and missionary diplomacy during the long removal / Rose Stremlau -- The Roman origins of Henry Knox's civilization policy / Nancy Shoemaker -- "Render unto Caesar" : Roman allegories in the Indian removal debates / Christina Snyder.