Colonialism in the Margins - Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland

The first book-length study of Swedish-Indian encounters in the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River focuses on land, trade and culture from the founding in 1638 until the 1680s, and compares these relations with Swedish interaction with Saami people.

About the author

Gunlög Fur, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Oklahoma, is Associate Professor of History at Växjö University in Sweden. She has published on colonial encounters and gender in Northeast America and Northern Scandinavia.

Product details

• Authors: Gunlög Fur
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2006
• EAN: 9789004153165
• ISBN: 978-90-04-15316-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Atlantic World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous