Gregory Kennedy Allan Greer, Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This ambitious book considers “the ways in which Europeans and their Euro-American descendants remade New World space as they laid claim to the continent’s resources, extended the reach of empire and established polities and jurisdictions… Continue Reading
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Gregory Kennedy Note: This is the fourth in a series on environmental history and early modern history cross-posted with NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History & Environment. Life as an academic often feels like constant movement between hope and despair. Hope that our research will have an impact, and be accepted our peers … despair at the latest… Continue Reading
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Anya Zilberstein Note: This is the second in a series on environmental history and early modern history cross-posted with NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History & Environment. Environmental historians of the 20th and 21st centuries should be early modernists. That’s because, just like present and presentism, the non-specialist definition of modern (not to say modernity, modernism, and their posterior… Continue Reading
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Jack Bouchard Note: This is the first in a series on environmental history and early modern history cross-posted with NiCHE, the Network in Canadian History & Environment. In the 1560s, if you were a European mariner in search of fish in the northwest Atlantic, you did not go to Newfoundland or Canada or New France. These were rarely… Continue Reading
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Claire Campbell Welcome to our series on the environmental history of the early modern period! A project of NiCHE, the series is cross-posted here at Borealia. The idea for a series featuring scholarship from the early modern period – and querying the larger temporal character of the field of environmental history – came out of this… Continue Reading
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