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• 1. Colonial habitation. Sir William Alexander and North American colonization ; Environment and colonization in early Acadia and Maine ; The 'lost colony' of New Scotland and its successors, to 1670
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• 2. Imperial exchange. 'The best conditioned gentleman in the world'? Verbal and physical abuse in the behaviour of Sir William Phips ; The conquest of 'Nova Scotia' : cartographic imperialism and the echoes of a Scottish past ; Imperialism, diplomacies, and the conquest of Port Royal, 1710
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• 3. Aboriginal engagement. Amerindian power in the early modern Northeast : a reappraisal ; The Sakamow's discourtesy and the governor's anger : negotiated imperialisma nd the Arrowsic Conference, 1717 ; Pax Britannica or Pax Indigena? Planter Nova Scotia (1760-1782) and competing strategies of pacification
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• 4. Commemoration. Chronologies, counterfactuals, trajectories, and encounter, 1604 ; Champlain : longevity and commemoration ; Reflections on seventeenth-century Acadia.

Viola Florence Barnes was one of the most prominent women historians in the United States from the 1920s to the 1950s. Born in 1885, Barnes was educated at Yale University and began teaching at Mount Holyoke College in 1919. She was an instrumental member of the 'imperial school' of historians, who interpreted North American colonial history within a British imperial framework. Specializing in New England and Canada's Maritime provinces, her best-known book was The Dominion of New England, published in 1923. In this probing biography, John G. Reid examines Barnes's life as a female historian, providing a revealing glimpse into the gendered experience of professional academia in that era. Reid also examines the imperial school, which, although rapidly losing favour by the 1950s, had yielded results that were crucial to the study of North American colonial history. Viola Florence Barnes was cited as one of 100 'outstanding career women' in the United States in 1940. The later years of her life were marked by difficulty and disillusionment, as she tried in vain to have her last book published. Yet, despite retiring in 1952, Barnes remained an active scholar almost to the time of her death in 1979. This exhaustive work is the first biography of Barnes - a major figure in the study of North American history.
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• ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""PART ONE: THE EVENT""; ""1 The 'Conquest' of Acadia: Narratives""; ""PART TWO: PRECURSORS""; ""2 Elites, States, and the Imperial Contest for Acadia""; ""3 Family and Political Culture in Pre-Conquest Acadia""; ""PART THREE: AGENCIES""; ""4 New England and the Conquest""; ""5 Mi'kmaq Decisions: Antoine Tecouenemac, the Conquest, and the Treaty of Utrecht""; ""6 Imperialism, Diplomacies, and the Conquest of Acadia""; ""PART FOUR: TRANSITIONS""; ""7 Making a British Nova Scotia""

• ""8 The Third Acadia: Political Adaptation and Societal Change""""9 Imperial Transitions""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""MAPS""; ""Map
• 1: Acadia/Nova Scotia and Surrounding Areas""; ""Map
• 2: Plan of Annapolis Royal, 1710""

The conquest of Port-Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multi-layered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualise the incident in local, regional, and imperial terms, six prominent scholars form new conclusions regarding the events of 1710. The authors show that the processes by which European states sought to legitimate their claims, and the terms on which mutual toleration would be granted or withheld by different peoples living side by side are especially visible in the Nova Scotia that emerged following the conquest. Important on both a local and global scale, The 'Conquest' of Acadia will be a significant contribution to Acadian history, native studies, native rights histories, and the socio-political history of the eighteenth century.
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The conquest of Port-Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multi-layered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualise the incident in local, regional, and imperial terms, six prominent scholars form new conclusions regarding the events of 1710. The authors show that the processes by which European states sought to legitimate their claims, and the terms on which mutual toleration would be granted or withheld by different peoples living side by side are especially visible in the Nova Scotia that emerged following the conquest. Important on both a local and global scale, The 'Conquest' of Acadia will be a significant contribution to Acadian history, native studies, native rights histories, and the socio-political history of the eighteenth century.
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Born in 1651 in what is now Maine, William Phips became a sea captain out of Boston, an adventurer in search of Spanish treasure in the Caribbean. He captured and plundered Port Royal in Acadia, now Nova Scotia, and led an unsuccessful expedition against Quebec in 1690. He became the first royal governor of Massachusetts in 1692, put an end to the Salem witchcraft trials, and negotiated a treaty with the native Wabanaki.This biography presents a well-rounded picture of Phips, one that looks at all phases of his colourful career. He was an unusual figure among colonial governors, and his very uniqueness, as well as his difficulties as governor, help us to understand the politics and society of New England during his era. Helped and hindered by his obscure origins, Phips struggled for advancement, and his struggle illustrates the fluid nature of the British Empire in the late seventeenth century.Phips's life was left unexplored by scholars for the past seventy years. The New England Knight reconstructs his career using contemporary material that brings life and immediacy to the narrative. It interacts with recent studies in colonial, imperial, aboriginal, and marine history to set Phips's eventful life in context.
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• 1. Introduction: Britain's oceanic empire H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid-- Part I. The Oceans:
• 2. Geographies of the British Atlantic world Stephen J. Hornsby--
• 3. Britain in the Indian Ocean region and beyond: contours, connections, and the creation of a global maritime empire H. V. Bowen-- Part II. Sovereignty, Law, and Governance:
• 4. Imperial constitutions: sovereignty and law in the British Atlantic Ken MacMillan--
• 5. Constitutions, contact zones, and imperial ricochets: sovereignty and law in British Asia Robert Travers--
• 6. Company, state, and empire: governance and regulatory frameworks in Asia Philip J. Stern--
• 7. The oriental Atlantic: governance and regulatory frameworks in the British Atlantic world Jerry Bannister-- Part III. Diplomatic and Military Relations:
• 8. Subjects, clients, allies or mercenaries? The British use of Irish and Amerindian military power, 1500-1800 Wayne E. Lee--
• 9. Diplomacy between Britons and Native Americans, c.1600-1830 Eric Hinderaker--
• 10. Diplomacy in India, 1526-1858 Michael H. Fisher--
• 11. Army discipline, military cultures, and state formation in colonial India, 1780-1860 Douglas M. Peers-- Part IV. Commercial and Social Relations:
• 12. Seths and sahibs: negotiated relationships between indigenous capital and the East India Company Lakshmi Subramanian--
• 13. The commercial economy of eastern India under early British rule Rajat Datta--
• 14. Anglo-Amerindian commercial relations Paul Grant-Costa and Elizabeth Mancke--
• 15. Placing British settlement in the Americas in comparative perspective Trevor Burnard--
• 16. Britain's oceanic empire: an afterword H. V. Bowen, Elizabeth Mancke and John G. Reid.
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This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe. They explore the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce, shedding new light on the processes of expansion that influenced the making of empire. While acknowledging the distinctions and divergences in imperial endeavours in Asia and the Americas - not least in terms of the size of indigenous populations, technical and cultural differences, and approaches to indigenous polities - this book argues that these differences must be seen in the context of what Britons overseas shared, including constitutional principles, claims of sovereignty, disciplinary regimes and military attitudes.
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• Contents Preface Contributors I Introduction II 'The Immortal Wolfe'?: Monuments, Memory, and the Battle of Quebec III 'Where Famous Heroes Fell': Tourism, History, and Liberalism in Old Quebec IV In Search of the Plains of Abraham: British, American, and Canadian Views of a Symbolic Landscape, 1793-1913 V History, Historiography, and the Courts: The St. Lawrence Mission Villages and the Fall of New France VI Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Present, and Envisioning the Future: Remembering the Conquest in Nineteenth-Century Quebec VII Overcoming a National 'Catastrophe': The British Conquest in the Historical and Polemical Thought of Abb Lionel Groulx VIII Intervening with abandon: The Conquest's Legacy in the Canada-Quebec-France Triangle of the 1960s IX A Nightmare to Awaken From: The Conquest in the Thinking of Qu b cois Nationalists of the 1960s and After X Below the Academic Radar: Denis Vaugeois and Constructing the Conquest in the Quebec Popular Imagination XI Remembering the Conquest: Mission Impossible? XII What is to be Done with 1759?
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This companion volume to Revisiting 1759 examines how the Conquest of Canada has been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, and reinterpreted by groups in Canada, France, Great Britain, the United States, and most of all, in Quebec. It focuses particularly on how the public memory of the Conquest has been used for a variety of cultural, political, and intellectual purposes. The essays contained in this volume investigate topics such as the legacy of 1759 in twentieth-century Quebec; the memorialization of General James Wolfe in a variety of national contexts; and the re-imagination of the Plains of Abraham as a tourist destination. Combined with Revisiting 1759, this collection provides readers with the most comprehensive, wide-ranging assessment to date of the lasting effects of the Conquest of Canada.
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New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. In an important new contribution to the growing field of transnational studies, the authors in "New England and the Maritime Provinces" take a critical and analytical approach to comparisons between these two regions. Leading scholars examine the relationship through analysis of historic, economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental themes common to both regions. They show what the effects have been, on both sides of the border, of the evolution of the region from a borderland with ill-defined boundaries to a bordered land with defined political borders. They further demonstrate that such boundaries are never absolute and that in some ways the region remains a social, cultural, and environmental borderland.Contributors are Robert H. Babcock (University of Maine), Betsy Beattie (University of Maine), Beatrice Craig (University of Ottawa), Jacques Ferland (University of Maine), Julian Gwyn (University of Ottawa), Colin D. Howell (Saint Mary's University), Edward D. Ives (University of Maine), Richard W.Judd (University of Maine), Elizabeth Mancke (University of Akron), Bill Parenteau (University of New Brunswick), Geoffrey Plank (University of Cincinnati), David Sanger (University of Maine), Scott See (University of Maine), Joshua Smith (US Merchant Marine Academy), Reginald C. Stuart (Mount Saint Vincent University), D. A. Sutherland (Dalhousie University), M. Brook Taylor (Mount Saint Vincent University), Deborah C. Trefts (independent scholar), William Wicken (York University), and Graeme Wynn (University of British Columbia).
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• Introduction / Stephen J. Hornsby and John G. Reid
• Pre-European Dawnland: archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula / David Sanger
• Spaces of power in the early modern Northeast / Elizabeth Mancke
• Passamaquoddy identity and the Marshall decision / William Wicken
• New England soldiers in the St. John River Valley, 1758-1760 / Geoffrey Plank
• Before Borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St. John Valley French / Béatrice Craig
• Comparative economic advantage: Novia Scotia and New England, 1720s-1860s
• Humbert's paradox: the global context of smuggling in the Bay of Fundy / Joshua C. Smith --Variations on a Borderlands theme: nativism and collective violence in Northeastern North American in the mid-nineteenth century / Scott W. See
• Nova Scotia and the American presence: seeking connections without conquest, 1848-1854 / D.A. Sutherland
• The command of money in Shaws' Borderlands, 1859-1887 / Jacques Ferland
• Re-examining the economic underdevelopment of the Maritime provinces: a case study of Portland, Maine, and Saint John, New Brunswick / Robert H. Babcock
• Maine-Maritimes folklore: the Lumberwoods connection / Edward D. Ives
• Canadian and American policy making in response to the first multi-species fisheries crisis in the greater Gulf of Maine Region / Deborah C. Trefts
• More buck for the bang: sporting and the ideology of fish and game management in northern New England and the Maritime provinces, 1870-1900 / Bill Parenteau and Richard W. Judd
• The "Boston States": region, gender, and Maritime out-migration, 1870-1930 / Betsy Beattie
• Borderlands, baselines, and big game: conceptualizing the Northeast as a sporting region / Colin D. Howell
• The epic of greater North America: themes and periodization in North American history / Reginald C. Stuart and M. Brook Taylor
• Peeping through the cracks: seeking connections, comparisons, and understanding in unstable space / Graeme Wynn.

• Introduction / Stephen J. Hornsby, John G. Reid
• Pre-European Dawnland: Archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula / David Sanger
• Spaces of Power in the Early Modern Northeast / Elizabeth Mancke
• Passamaquoddy Identity and the Marshall Decision / William Wicken
• New England Soldiers in the St John River Valley, 1758-1760 / Geoffrey Plank
• Before Borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St John Valley French / Beatrice Craig
• Comparative Economic Advantage: Nova Scotia and New England, 1720S-1860S / Julian Gwyn
• Humbert's Paradox: The Global Context of Smuggling in the Bay of Fundy / Joshua C. Smith
• Variations on a Borderlands Theme: Nativism and Collective Violence in Northeastern North America in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Scott W. See
• Nova Scotia and the American Presence: Seeking Connections Without Conquest, 1848-1854 / D.A. Sutherland
• The Command of Money in Shaws' Borderlands, 1859-1887 / Jacques Ferland
• Re-Examining the Economic Underdevelopment of the Maritime Provinces: A Case Study of Portland, Maine, and Saint John, New Brunswick / Robert H. Babcock
• Maine-Maritimes Folklore: The Lumberwoods Connection / Edward D. Ives
• Canadian and American Policy Making in Response to the First Multi-Species Fisheries Crisis in the Greater Gulf of Maine Region / Deborah C. Trefts
• More Buck for the Bang: Sporting and the Ideology of Fish and Game Management in Northern New England and the Maritime Provinces, 1870-1900 / Bill Parenteau, Richard W. Judd.

"This collection of original essays offers new perspectives on the relationship between New England and the Maritimes, a relationship that has been historically important for centuries and remains crucial to the neighbouring regions. While the main focus is historical, the authors come from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, geography, folklore, and environmental studies. Comparative methods are used with a careful - though not uncritical - application of the "borderlands" approach."--Jacket.

Nearly thirty years ago W.S. MacNutt published the first general history of the Atlantic provinces before Confederation. An outstanding scholarly achievement, that history inspired much of the enormous growth of research and writing on Atlantic Canada in the succeeding decades. Now a new effort is required, to convey the state of our knowledge in the 1990s. Many of the themes important to today's historians, notably those relating to social class, gender, and ethnicity, have been fully developed only since 1970. Important advances have been made in our understanding of regional economic developments and their implications for social, cultural, and political life. This book is intended to fill the need for an up-to-date overview of emerging regional themes and issues. Each of the sixteen chapters, written by a distinguished scholar, covers a specific chronological period and has been carefully integrated into the whole. The history begins with the evolution of Native cultures and the impact of the arrival of Europeans on those cultures, and continues to the formation of Confederation. The goal has been to provide a synthesis that not only incorporates the most recent scholarship but is accessible to the general reader. The book re-assesses many old themes from a new perspective, and seeks to broaden the focus of regional history to include those groups whom the traditional historiography ignored or marginalized.
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