Contested spaces of early America / edited by Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barr, Juliana.

Countryman, Edward.

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Series:

Early American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands--America--History.

Borderlands.

Historical geography.

Colonization.

History.

America--History--To 1810.

America.

Indigenous peoples--Land tenure.

Indigenous peoples.

Indians--Land tenure.

America--Colonization.

America--Historical geography.

Physical Description:

ix, 426 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2014]

Contents:

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 Hämäläinen, Pekka 31

Chapter 2 Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties / Allan Greer Greer, Allan 69

Part II Spaces and Landscapes

Chapter 3 The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains / Elizabeth Fenn Fenn, Elizabeth 95

Chapter 4 Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain / Cynthia Radding Radding, Cynthia 115

Chapter 5 Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era / Raúl José Mandrini Mandrini, Raúl José 142

Part III Spaces and Resettlements

Chapter 6 Blurred Borders: North America's Forgotten Apache Reservations / Matthew Babcock Babcock, Matthew 163

Chapter 7 The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization / Chantal Cramaussel Cramaussel, Chantal 184

Chapter 8 Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas / Alan Taylor Taylor, Alan 208

Part IV Spaces and Memory

Chapter 9 Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland / Brian Delay Delay, Brian 229

Chapter 10 Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoe's Captivity Narrative / Birgit Brander Rasmussen Rasmussen, Birgit Brander 257

Chapter 11 Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings / Ned Blackhawk Blackhawk, Ned 276

Chapter 12 The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America / Samuel Truett Truett, Samuel 300.

Notes:

"Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812245844

0812245849

OCLC:

858610801