The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680-1790

by Thomas Peace

Book Overview

An overlooked history of the Maritime Peninsula from the perspective of its Indigenous communities.

In 1760, after Montcalm's defeat at the Plains of Abraham, the French Empire was definitively expelled from the Saint Lawrence Valley. This history is well known. Less well known is that this decisive victory had its roots almost a hundred years earlier when settler colonial systems of power first took root on the peripheries of the Maritime...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077486835X
• ISBN13: 9780774868358
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"