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Essays on Northeastern North America, 17th & 18th Centuries /

In examining the history of northeastern North America in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, it is important to take into account diverse influences and experiences. Not only was the relationship between native inhabitants and colonial settlers a defining characteristic of Acadia/Nova Scotia an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Reid, John G., 1948- (Autor)
Otros Autores: Baker, Emerson W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • pt. 1. Colonial habitation. Sir William Alexander and North American colonization ; Environment and colonization in early Acadia and Maine ; The 'lost colony' of New Scotland and its successors, to 1670
  • pt. 2. Imperial exchange. 'The best conditioned gentleman in the world'? Verbal and physical abuse in the behaviour of Sir William Phips ; The conquest of 'Nova Scotia' : cartographic imperialism and the echoes of a Scottish past ; Imperialism, diplomacies, and the conquest of Port Royal, 1710
  • pt. 3. Aboriginal engagement. Amerindian power in the early modern Northeast : a reappraisal ; The Sakamow's discourtesy and the governor's anger : negotiated imperialisma nd the Arrowsic Conference, 1717 ; Pax Britannica or Pax Indigena? Planter Nova Scotia (1760-1782) and competing strategies of pacification
  • pt. 4. Commemoration. Chronologies, counterfactuals, trajectories, and encounter, 1604 ; Champlain : longevity and commemoration ; Reflections on seventeenth-century Acadia.