Facing empire : indigenous experiences in a revolutionary age

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"In Facing Empire, Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell have collected a series of essays that focus on indigenous experiences in the revolutionary age of the late eighteenth century, looking at indigenous interactions with the British Empire particularly. The collection aims to view indigenous peoples as vital and dynamic actors across an increasingly global stage and think about what this new world of European-driven imperialism might have lo...

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Great Britain Colonies Race relations

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ISBN:

9781421426563

Description:

xi, 356 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The future makers: managing Australia in 1788 / Bill Gammage
The indigenous architecture of empire: the Anishinaabe Odawa in North America / Michael A. McDonnell
Exploiting British ambivalence in West Africa: Fante sovereignty in the early nineteenth century / Rebecca Shumway
New ecologies: pathways in the Pacific, 1760s-1840s / Jennifer Newell
Closed sea or contested waters? the Persian Gulf in the age of revolutions / Sujit Sivasundaram
Red power and homeland security: native nations and the limits of empire in the Ohio Country / Colin G. Calloway
Between reform and revolution: class formation and British colonial rule at the Cape of Good Hope / Nicole Ulrich
Christianity, commerce and the remaking of the Maori world / Tony Ballantyne
Broken treaty: Taungurung responses to the settler revolution in colonial Victoria / Robert Kenny
Envoys of interest: a Cherokee, a Ra'iatean, and the eighteenth-century British Empire / Kate Fullagar
Makahs, Maoris, and the settler revolution in Pacific marine space / Joshua L. Reid
Imperial structures, indigenous aims: connecting native engagement in Scotland, North America, and South Asia / Justin Brooks
Shahwundais and the Methodist Mission to native North America / Elspeth Martini

LCCN:

2018002314

Control Number:

2608112

Other Authors:

Fullagar, Kate, editor
McDonnell, Michael A., editor

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