Contested Spaces of Early America /

Contested Spaces of Early America / / ed. by Juliana Barr, Edward Countryman.

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Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do with European kingdoms. Instead,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Babcock, Matthew,
Barr, Juliana,
Blackhawk, Ned,
Countryman, Edward,
Cramaussel, Chantal,
DeLay, Brian,
Greer, Allan,
Hämäläinen, Pekka,
Mandrini, Raul José,
Radding, Cynthia,
Rasmussen, Birgit Brander,
Taylor, Alan,
Truett, Samuel,
HerausgeberIn:
Barr, Juliana,
Countryman, Edward,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (444 p.) :; 29 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide
  • PART I. SPACES AND POWER
  • Chapter 1. The Shapes of Power: Indians, Europeans, and North American Worlds from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
  • Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties
  • PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES
  • Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains
  • Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain
  • Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era
  • PART III. SPACES AND RESETTLEMENTS
  • Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North America's Forgotten Apache Reservations
  • Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization
  • Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas
  • PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY
  • Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland
  • Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe's Captivity Narrative
  • Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings
  • Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America
  • Notes
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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