Contested Spaces of Early AmericaPaperback
Contested Spaces of Early AmericaPaperback Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Instead, the New World's holdings took their…
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Contested Spaces of Early AmericaPaperback
Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Instead, the New World's holdings took their form and shape from the Indian territories they inhabited. 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.
Lavishly illustrated with 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.