Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 1690-1763 (Studies in Atlantic Canada History)

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pictorial paper binding,pp., xii, 334 :illustrated,maps, a fine copy, CONTENTS: Introduction Chapter One: Neighbours in the Homeland Chapter Two: Mapping the Spoils of Peace Chapter Three: A Time and a Place Chapter Four: A Pale on the Coast Chapter Five: Acadia in Paris Chapter Six: Map Wars and Surveyors of the Peace Conclusion." Homelands and Empires is the inaugural volume in the University of Toronto Press's Studies in Atlantic Canada History. In this deeply researched and engagingly argued work, Jeffers Lennox reconfigures our general understanding of how Indigenous peoples, imperial forces, and settlers competed for space in northeastern North America before the British conquest in 1763. Lennox's judicious investigation of official correspondence, treaties, newspapers and magazines, diaries, and maps reveals a locally developed system of accommodation that promoted peaceful interactions but enabled violent reprisals when agreements were broken. This outstanding contribution to scholarship on early North America questions the nature and practice of imperial expansion in the face of Indigenous territorial strength."--.