The Slow Rush of Colonization
Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula, 1680–1790
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- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2023
- Subjects
- Atlantic Provinces (NB, NL, NS, PE), Canadian Studies, Native American, North America
- Categories
- About indigenous people or experiences , About New Brunswick , About Nova Scotia
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- Jun 2023
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Description
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 Peninsula (the places known today as Quebec, Maritime Canada, and New England).
Drawing on the concept of spaces of power, historian Thomas Peace demonstrates that despite imperial changes of power and settler colonial incursions on their Lands, local Mi’kmaw, Wabanaki, Peskotomuhkati, Wolastoqiyik, and Wendat nations continued to experience the contested Peninsula as a cohesive whole, rather than one defined by subsequent colonial borders.
This engaging history shows how overlapping concepts of space and power – shaped deeply by Indigenous agency and diplomacy – defined relationships in the eighteenth-century Maritime Peninsula and how, following the Seven Years’ War, this history was brushed aside as settlers flooded into the Peninsula, laying the groundwork from which Canada and the United States would develop.
About the author
Awards
- Winner, Clio Award (Atlantic Canada), Canadian Historical Association
- Winner, Wilson Book Prize, Wilson Institute for Canadian History
Contributor Notes
Thomas Peace is an associate professor of history and co-director of the Community History Centre at Huron University College. He has authored numerous articles on the history of schooling and settler colonialism, historical relationships between the Mi’kmaw and Acadians, and the influence of digital technologies on the historian’s craft. He has edited two Open Educational primary source readers: The Open History Seminar (with Sean Kheraj) and A Few Words that Changed the World. Since 2009 he has edited ActiveHistory.ca, one of Canada’s leading history blogs, and in 2016, with Kathryn Labelle, he edited From Huronia to Wendakes: Adversity, Migrations, and Resilience, 1650–1900.
Editorial Reviews
"[Peace] highlights evidence that shows Indigenous people standing up to colonizing powers and significantly shaping encounters."
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