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Transatlantic Upper Canada : portraits in literature, land, and British-Indigenous relations /
"Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. In the first detailed...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's transatlantic studies ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction Literature, Land, and Colonial Relations
- 1. Romantic Ecology, Indigenous Culture, and the Ideology of "Improvement"
- 2. Bishop John Strachan, Christian Evangelism, and the First Nations of Upper Canada
- 3. The Legal, Literary, and Environmental Passions of Sir John Beverley Robinson
- 4. Anna Brownell Jameson and Sir Francis Bond Head among the Anishinaabeg
- 5. The Transatlantic World of John Norton (Chief Teyoninhokarawen)
- 6. John Brant (Chief Ahyonwaeghs) and the Grand River Haudenosaunee
- 7. Peter Jones (Chief Kahkewaquonaby) and the Credit River Mississauga
- 8. The Atlantic Crossings of George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh)
- Afterword Paths Not Taken
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.