| The course in North American colonial history examines the contact between Europeans and Amerindians in historical perspective. Methodologically, it will consider examples of a fairly broad historiography, as well as documentary evidence focused largely on the British-Native encounter in New England and the Atlantic Provinces in the eighteenth century. Themes will include native and colonial cultures and cultural interaction, the fur trade, alliance systems, British and French colonial policies, conflict, treaties, and the division of land. |
