Dwelling on the Margins of Empire : Colonized and Indigenous Peoples' Imaginaries of Home.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Binkley, Lisa, editor.

Crooks, Katherine, editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

Empire's other histories.

Empire's other histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Dwellings--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

This book considers histories of home from the margins, highlighting the perspectives of displaced, colonised, and disenfranchised groups in imperial and settler colonial contexts.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of figures

List of contributors

1 Finding home at the margins of colonial encounter Lisa Binkley

Part 1 (Re)Moving home

2 Fur trade forts and military camps: The Askin daughters creating home in the British Empire Cecilia Morgan

3 Along the water's edge: Mobilizing home and unhome in the pays d'en haut Lisa Binkley

4 Denying home: Canadian exceptionalism and indigenous relocation Judith Meyrick

Part 2 (Re)Making home

5 'As good as any place at home': Eating American in colonial Manila, 1898-1913 Alana Toulin

6 Lady Mendl and the 'Maharanee' go to the ball: Global fantasies of empire in the domestic interior Sara Shields-Rivard

7 The dwelling spaces of Mary Pratt Anne Koval

8 Healing at home in colonial Nova Scotia: The medicinal remedies of Sarah Creighton Wilkins, 1811-33 Holly Dickinson

Part 3 (Re)Claiming home

9 Rain is the ancestors' tears of joy: 'Home' through the lens of Aboriginal exemption Judith Wickes and Katherine Ellinghaus

10 Remaking the town in colonial southeastern Nigeria: Town unions in the changing social landscapes of early twentieth-century Igboland Chioma Abuba

11 Rangatiratanga: Reimagining the notion of home for Māori single mothers Shelley Hoani

12 Working the land: Resistance, reclamation and regenerative farming SJ Jones

13 Letters from home: A Mi'kmaw scholar on indigenous identity verification in academia Margaret Robinson

Bibliography

Index.

ISBN:

1-350-40236-2

1-350-38606-5

1-350-38607-3

9781350386068

OCLC:

1559235723