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Topics in History: Indigenous Peoples and the Early Modern British Empire

An image of a map from 1612 by John Smith outlining the locations and names of Indigenous Peoples throughout the Virginia and Chesapeake Bay areas.
English colonist John Smith's A Map of Virginia (1625), which depicts several of the Indigenous nations of the Chesapeake Bay, including the Powhatans, Susquehannocks, & Monacans, among many others.

This seminar examines the history of Indigenous peoples and their relations with the English empire, and after 1707 the British empire, from the earliest Anglo-Indigenous encounters and entanglements in the sixteenth century to the crisis of empire and the American Revolution in the late eighteenth century. Through weekly readings and discussions, we will explore a variety of topics in the early modern history of empire and of Indigenous peoples in the Americas and Pacific, such as the rise of commercialization, exploration, trade, transoceanic settlement, dispossession, slavery, women & gender, military expansion, political thought, and environmental change. The seminar interrogates these themes through the close reading and analysis of primary sources, as well as scholarly articles and books. Throughout, students will develop the tools for understanding the foundations, impacts, and legacies of empire and colonialism in the twenty-first century. By the end of this course, students will also have developed knowledge of contemporary Indigenous issues in many English-speaking countries today.
 

Department of History, 成人大片 University

49 Bader Lane, Watson Hall 212
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

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