Contested Spaces of Early America

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2014

Contested Spaces of Early America

Edited by: Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman

In the series Early American Studies

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209334

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About this book

Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of European and Indian spaces created throughout the hemisphere during the colonial era.

Author / Editor information

Juliana Barr is Associate Professor of History at Duke University and author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Edward Countryman is University Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University and author of several books, including The American Revolution, Americans: A Collision of Histories, and most recently Enjoy the Same Liberty: Black Americans and the Revolutionary Era.

Reviews

"Contested Spaces of Early America offers readers a cross section of thoughtful new approaches to American history, which is finally beginning to fulfill its promise as a history of all Americans."—Journal of Historical Geography

"Bold, innovative, and ambitious, Contested Spaces of Early America is an excellent volume that engages with the state of the field like few others."—Andrés Reséndez, University of California, Davis

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I. SPACES AND POWER
Chapter 1. The Shapes of Power: Indians, Europeans, and North American Worlds from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century Pekka Hämäläinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties Allan Greer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES
Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain Cynthia Radding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era Raul José Mandrini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
PART III. SPACES AND RESETTLEMENTS
Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North America’s Forgotten Apache Reservations Matthew Babcock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization Chantal Cramaussel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas Alan Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY
Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo–New Mexican Borderland Brian DeLay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe’s Captivity Narrative Birgit Brander Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings Ned Blackhawk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America Samuel Truett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 444
Illustrations
- Other: 29 b/w illus.
Keywords: American History; American Studies

eBook

Published: March 7, 2014
ISBN: 9780812209334