British forts and their communities : archaeological and historical perspectives / edited by Christopher R. DeCorse and Zachary J. M. Beier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

DeCorse, Christopher R., editor.

Beier, Zachary J. M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fortification.

History.

Great Britain--History, Military.

Great Britain.

History, Military.

Fortification--Great Britain--History.

Genre:

History.

Military history.

Physical Description:

xvi, 314 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2018]

Summary:

This book is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It casts new light on forts and their communities by asking new questions and applying innovative methodological approaches.

Contents:

Introduction: British forts and their communities / Zachary J.M. Beier and Christopher R. DeCorse

British forts in northern New York State / David R. Starbuck

Maintaining the military: blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac (Michigan) / Amy Roache-Fedchenko

At the margins of empire: British colonial policy and Fort Haldimand, Carleton Island, New York (1778-1784) / Douglas J. Pippin

The fort and the village: landscape and identity in the colonial period of Fort Vancouver / Douglas C. Wilson

Tracing the fur trade: British fort sites along the Columbia River / Robert J. Cromwell

Everyday entanglements: labor and diversity at the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica / Zachary J.M. Beier

Enslaved Africans and the British military at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies / Gerald F. Schroedl

Landlords and strangers: British forts and their communities in West Africa / Christopher R. DeCorse

Supporting the fort: James Island, exchange, and entanglement in Atlantic Gambia / Liza Gijanto

People at the gates: Fort WIllshire and cultural transformation in the Eastern Cape, South Africa / Floredeliz T. Bugarin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780813056753

0813056756

OCLC:

995162417

Publisher Number:

99977620441