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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807155703321

Autore

Fur Gunlog Maria

Titolo

Colonialism in the margins : cultural encounters in New Sweden and Lapland / / Gunlog Fur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill Academic Publishers, 2006

ISBN

1-281-39981-7

9786611399818

90-474-1065-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Collana

The Atlantic world, , 1570-0542 ; ; v. 9

Disciplina

325/.348509751

Soggetti

Delaware Indians - History

Sweden Colonies

New Sweden History

Delaware History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Power on the Periphery -- 2. Interaction in the North -- 3. Swedish Overseas Expansion -- 4. Rightful Owners-The Swedish Colony and Indian Land -- 5. Two Kinds of Middlemen -- 6. Strangely Kept and Protected -- 7. Alignments-The Interim Years -- 8. Stories-Swedish Colonial Encounters in a Comparative Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores Swedish encounters with American Indians in the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River during the second half of the seventeenth century. To place Swedish-Indian interactions in perspective a comparison is made with Swedish-Saami colonial relations during the same time period. These were two expressions of Great Power ambitions that place Sweden firmly within the context of European colonialism, but also meant the two outstanding examples of Swedish encounters with indigenous populations. Focus is on issues of land ownership and transactions, on trade, and on cultural encounters. The book is of particular interest to historians of colonial encounters in



America and Sweden, but also in a larger context concerning European colonialism and its heritage today.