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Borderland Narratives - Negotiation and Accommodation in North America's Contested Spaces, 1500-1850 (Paperback)
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Borderland Narratives - Negotiation and Accommodation in North America's Contested Spaces, 1500-1850 (Paperback)
Series: Contested Boundaries
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Broadening the idea of ""borderlands"" beyond its traditional
geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing
the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early
America. It extends the concept to regions not typically seen as
borderlands and demonstrates how the term has been used in recent
years to describe unstable spaces where people, cultures, and
viewpoints collide. The essays include an exploration of the
diplomacy and motives that led colonial and Native leaders in the
Ohio Valley--including those from the Shawnee and Cherokee-to
cooperate and form coalitions; a contextualized look at the
relationship between African Americans and Seminole Indians on the
Florida borderlands; and an assessment of the role that animal
husbandry played in the economies of southeastern Indians. An essay
on the experiences of those who disappeared in the early colonial
southwest highlights the magnitude of destruction on these emergent
borderlands and features a fresh perspective on Cabeza de Vaca. Yet
another essay examines the experiences of French missionary priests
in the trans-Appalachian West, adding a new layer of understanding
to places ordinarily associated with the evangelical Protestant
revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Collectively these essays
focus on marginalized peoples and reveal how their experiences and
decisions lie at the center of the history of borderlands. They
also look at the process of cultural mixing and the crossing of
religious and racial boundaries. A timely assessment of the dynamic
field of borderland studies, Borderland Narratives argues that the
interpretive model of borders is essential to understanding the
history of colonial North America. Contributors: Andrew Frank; A.
Glenn Crothers; Rob Harper; Tyler Boulware; Carla Gerona; Rebekah
M. K. Mergenthal; Michael Pasquier; Philip Mulder; Julie Winch.
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