Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the
Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although European settlers
laid claim to territories they called New Spain, New England, and
New France, the reality of living in those spaces had little to do
with European kingdoms. Instead, the New World's holdings took
their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited.
These contested spaces throughout the western hemisphere were not
unclaimed lands waiting to be conquered and populated but a single
vast space, occupied by native communities and defined by the
meeting, mingling, and clashing of peoples, creating societies
unlike any that the world had seen before. Contested Spaces of
Early America brings together some of the most distinguished
historians in the field to view colonial America on the largest
possible scale. Lavishly illustrated with maps, Native art, and
color plates, the twelve chapters span the southern reaches of New
Spain through Mexico and Navajo Country to the Dakotas and Upper
Canada, and the early Indian civilizations to the ruins of the
nineteenth-century West. At the heart of this volume is a search
for a human geography of colonial relations: Contested Spaces of
Early America aims to rid the historical landscape of imperial
cores, frontier peripheries, and modern national borders to
redefine the way scholars imagine colonial America. Contributors:
Matthew Babcock, Ned Blackhawk, Chantal Cramaussel, Brian DeLay,
Elizabeth Fenn, Allan Greer, Pekka Hamalainen, Raul Jose Mandrini,
Cynthia Radding, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Alan Taylor, and Samuel
Truett.
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