Book ID: CBB284858078

Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690–1763. (2017)

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Lennox, Jeffers (Author)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: xii; 334 pp.
Language: English

The period from 1690 to 1763 was a time of intense territorial competition during which Indigenous peoples remained a dominant force. British Nova Scotia and French Acadia were imaginary places that administrators hoped to graft over the ancestral homelands of the Mi'kmaq, Wulstukwiuk, Passamaquoddy, and Abenaki peoples. Homelands and Empires is the inaugural volume in the University of Toronto Press's Studies in Atlantic Canada History. In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763. Lennox's judicious investigation of official correspondence, treaties, newspapers and magazines, diaries, and maps reveals a locally developed system of accommodation that promoted peaceful interactions but enabled violent reprisals when agreements were broken. This outstanding contribution to scholarship on early North America questions the nature and practice of imperial expansion in the face of Indigenous territorial strength.

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Authors & Contributors
Smalley, Andrea L.
Berthelette, Scott
Bollwerk, Elizabeth
Emiralioglu, Mevhibe Pinar
Gallo, Marcus Terran
Zilberstein, Anya
Concepts
Native American civilization and culture
Cartography
Colonialism
Land settlement
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Maps; atlases
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
19th century
20th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
North America
United States
Pennsylvania (U.S.)
Ohio (U.S.)
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Institutions
United States. Department of Agriculture
United States. Geological Survey
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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