Juliana Barr

Contested Spaces of Early America

Introduction. Maps and Spaces, Paths to Connect, and Lines to Divide -Juliana Barr and Edward Countryman PART I. SPACES AND POWER Chapter 1. The Shapes of Power: Indians, Europeans, and North American Worlds from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -Pekka Hamalainen Chapter 2. Dispossession in a Commercial Idiom: From Indian Deeds to Land Cession Treaties -Allan Greer PART II. SPACES AND LANDSCAPES Chapter 3. The Mandans: Ecology, Population, and Adaptation on the Northern Plains -Elizabeth Fenn Chapter 4. Colonial Spaces in the Fragmented Communities of Northern New Spain -Cynthia Radding Chapter 5. Transformations: The Rio de la Plata During the Bourbon Era -Raul Jose Mandrini PART III. SPACE AND RESETTLEMENTS Chapter 6. Blurred Borders: North Americas Forgotten Apache Reservations -Matthew Babcock Chapter 7. The Forced Transfer of Indians in Nueva Vizcaya and Sinaloa: A Hispanic Method of Colonization -Chantal Cramaussel Chapter 8. Remaking Americans: Louisiana, Upper Canada, and Texas -Alan Taylor PART IV. SPACES AND MEMORY Chapter 9. Blood Talk: Violence and Belonging in the Navajo-New Mexican Borderland -Brian DeLay Chapter 10. Toward a New Literary History of the West: Etahdleuh Doanmoes Captivity Narrative -Birgit Brander Rasmussen Chapter 11. Toward an Indigenous Art History of the West: The Segesser Hide Paintings -Ned Blackhawk Chapter 12. The Borderlands and Lost Worlds of Early America -Samuel Truett Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments