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Author:   Brian DeLay (University of California, Berkeley, CA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.910kg
ISBN:  

9780415808651

ISBN 10:   0415808650
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   07 December 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction I. Authority 1. Marriage and Homicide on the Middle Ground Richard White 2. The Colonial Pact Cynthia Radding 3. Conversations in the Woods James Merrell II. Conflict 4. The Yamasee War Reconsidered William L. Ramsey 5. The Wider World of the Handsome Man Brian DeLay III. Animals, Plants, and Disease 6. King Philip’s Herds Virginia DeJohn Anderson 7. Dual Revolutions in the California Missions Steven W. Hackel IV. Gender 8. The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier Kathleen M. Brown 9. Virgins and Cannibals Alan Greer X. Ideas 10. Debating Identity, Sovereignty, and Civilization Kathleen DuVal 11. ""The Broad Platform of Extermination"" Karl Jacoby XI. Crossings 12. Fishing the Line Lissa Wadewitz 13. Enforcing the Borders Erika Lee 14. Borderlands of Modernity and Abandonment Geraldo L. Cadava"

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North American Borderlands provides a marvelous overview of the dynamic, multivocal, contested spaces that defined much of the continent's thistorical experience. There is no better introduction to the subject. --Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania Focusing on the complex relationships that developed between peoples in zones of plural sovereignty , this illuminating anthology brings together some of the most influential scholarship of the last two decades to showcase the shared stories that have shaped North America's many borderlands - and molded North American history - from the seventeenth century to the present. --Stephen Aron, author of The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

<p> North American Borderlands provides a marvelous overview of the dynamic, multivocal, contested spaces that defined much of the continent's thistorical experience. There is no better introduction to the subject. <p> <p>--Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania <p> Focusing on the complex relationships that developed between peoples in zones of plural sovereignty, this illuminating anthology brings together some of the most influential scholarship of the last two decades to showcase the shared stories that have shaped North America s many borderlands and molded North American history from the seventeenth century to the present. <p>--Stephen Aron, author of The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State

Author Information

Brian DeLay is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War.

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