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Author Fur, Gunlög Maria.

Title Colonialism in the margins : cultural encounters in New Sweden and Lapland / Gunlög Fur.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 297 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Atlantic world ; v. 9
Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-292) and index.
Contents Power on the Periphery -- Interaction in the North -- Swedish Overseas Expansion -- Rightful Owners -- The Swedish Colony and Indian Land -- Two Kinds of Middlemen -- Strangely Kept and Protected -- Alignments -- The Interim Years -- Stories -- Swedish Colonial Encounters in a Comparative Perspective.
Summary 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.
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Subject Delaware Indians -- History.
Delaware Indians.
History.
Sweden -- Colonies.
Sweden.
Colonies.
New Sweden -- History.
Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Computer network resources.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Fur, Gunlög Maria. Colonialism in the margins. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Academic Publishers, 2006 (DLC) 2006284837
ISBN 9789004153165
9004153160
9047410653 (electronic book)
9789047410652 (electronic book)
1281399817
9781281399816
9789047410652
9004153160
Standard No. 9789004153165