This book provides the first comprehensive work that examines the intellectual impact of New English narratives about Indigenous peoples, colonization, and the cultural influence they had in the northeastern United States.
By examining works that aided in the rationalization of colonialization, Indigenous dispossession, and genocide, this book demonstrates the pervasive impact that these popular narratives played in New England culture, and how they still influence representations of Indigenous peoples in the region. Throughout New England’s history, Indigenous peoples challenged and resisted settler colonialism through their own cultural production and public statements. These voices remind us that settler colonialism was never uncontested in the northeastern United States and beyond.
Settler Colonial Thought and Culture in the Northeastern United States is a useful resource for all students and scholars who study colonialism, settler colonialism, empire, history and memory, and critical race studies.
By examining works that aided in the rationalization of colonialization, Indigenous dispossession, and genocide, this book demonstrates the pervasive impact that these popular narratives played in New England culture, and how they still influence representations of Indigenous peoples in the region.
Acknowledgment. Introduction: Settler Colonial Culture and Thought:
Global, United States, and New England Perspectives.
1. Puritan Invasion,
Indigenous Representation, and Settler Colonial Justification.
2. Distorting
the Past: Historical Narratives and Settler Colonial Culture and Thought.
3.
Settler Colonial Culture and Thought and Cultural Production in New England
and the United States. Conclusion: The Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism:
New England, the United States, the Indian Problem, Reform, Civilization, and
Assimilation. Epilogue: Legacies of Settler Colonial Culture and Resistance
in the Northeastern United States. Bibliography.
Christoph Strobel is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast, Native Americans of New England, The Global Atlantic: 14001900, The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire, and many other publications.
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