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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide
-Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman
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
Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties
-Allan Greer
PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES
Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains
-Elizabeth Fenn
Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain
-Cynthia Radding
Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era
-RaÚl JosÉ Mandrini
PART III. SPACE AND RESETTLEMENTS
Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North America's Forgotten Apache Reservations
-Matthew Babcock
Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization
-Chantal Cramaussel
Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas
-Alan Taylor
PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY
Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland
-Brian DeLay
Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe's Captivity Narrative
-Birgit Brander Rasmussen
Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings
-Ned Blackhawk
Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America
-Samuel Truett
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
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.
