Borderland Narratives: Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850 (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 The united states. It extends the concept that to regions not in most cases seen as borderlands and demonstrates how the term has been used in latest 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 have a 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 point of view on Cabeza de Vaca. Yet any other 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 focal point on marginalized peoples and reveal how their experiences and decisions lie on the center of the history of borderlands. They also have a 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 very important to understanding the history of colonial North The united states.

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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