Homelands and Empires - Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, Competition for Territory in

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.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter One: Neighbours in the Homeland

Chapter Two: Mapping the Spoils of Peace

Chapter Three: A Time and a Place

Chapter Four: A Pale on the Coast

Chapter Five: Acadia in Paris

Chapter Six: Map Wars and Surveyors of the Peace

Conclusion

About the author

Jeffers Lennox is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Wesleyan University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffers Lennox
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781442614055
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-1405-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: History of Atlantic Canada; Studies in Atlantic Canada His; Studies in Atlantic Canada History; Studies in Atlantic Canada History; Studies in Atlantic Canada His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Amerikanische Geschichte, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)