Empire, Kinship and Violence

2022-12-31 History

Author : Elizabeth Elbourne
Release : 2022-12-31
Genre : History
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Download or read book Empire, Kinship and Violence written by Elizabeth Elbourne. This book was released on 2022-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empire, Kinship and Violence traces the history of three linked imperial families in Britain and across contested colonial borderlands from 1770 to 1842. Elizabeth Elbourne tracks the Haudenosaunee Brants of northeastern North America from the American Revolution to exile in Canada; the Bannisters, a British family of colonial administrators, whistleblowers and entrepreneurs who operated across Australia, Canada and southern Africa; and the Buxtons, a family of British abolitionists who publicized information about what might now be termed genocide towards Indigenous peoples while also pioneering humanitarian colonialism. By recounting the conflicts that these interlinked families were involved in she tells a larger story about the development of British and American settler colonialism and the betrayal of Indigenous peoples. Through an analysis of the changing politics of kinship and violence, Elizabeth Elbourne sheds new light on transnational debates about issues such as Indigenous sovereignty claims, British subjecthood, violence, land rights and cultural assimilation.

Empire, Kinship and Violence

2022-12-31 History

Author : Elizabeth Elbourne
Release : 2022-12-31
Genre : History
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Download or read book Empire, Kinship and Violence written by Elizabeth Elbourne. This book was released on 2022-12-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious account of Indigenous-settler relationships and struggles over Indigenous rights in British white settler colonies from the 1770s to 1830s.

Brothers of Coweta

2021-07-28 History

Author : Bryan C. Rindfleisch
Release : 2021-07-28
Genre : History
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Download or read book Brothers of Coweta written by Bryan C. Rindfleisch. This book was released on 2021-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Brothers of Coweta Bryan C. Rindfleisch explores how family and clan served as the structural foundation of the Muscogee (Creek) Indian world through the lens of two brothers, who emerged from the historical shadows to shape the forces of empire, colonialism, and revolution that transformed the American South during the eighteenth century. Although much of the historical record left by European settlers was fairly robust, it included little about Indigenous people and even less about their kinship, clan, and familial dynamics. However, European authorities, imperial agents, merchants, and a host of other individuals left a surprising paper trail when it came to two brothers, Sempoyaffee and Escotchaby, of Coweta, located in what is now central Georgia. Though fleeting, their appearances in the archival record offer a glimpse of their extensive kinship connections and the ways in which family and clan propelled them into their influential roles negotiating with Europeans. As the brothers navigated the politics of empire, they pursued distinct family agendas that at times clashed with the interests of Europeans and other Muscogee leaders. Despite their limitations, Rindfleisch argues that these archives reveal how specific Indigenous families negotiated and even subverted empire-building and colonialism in early America. Through careful examination, he demonstrates how historians of early and Native America can move past the limitations of the archives to rearticulate the familial and clan dynamics of the Muscogee world.

Women Writing Kinship

2022 Historiography

Author : Arielle N. Irizarry
Release : 2022
Genre : Historiography
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Download or read book Women Writing Kinship written by Arielle N. Irizarry. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation project, “Women Writing Kinship: U.S. Ethnic Historiographic Fiction in the 2000’s” examines a recent resurgence in historiographic fiction by women writers from marginalized ethnic groups. The novels my dissertation focuses on, such as Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s Wench (2010), Yxta Maya Murray’s The Conquest (2002), and LeAnne Howe’s Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story (2007), explore histories of American imperial violence and its impact on communities and networks of kin. These novels share a preoccupation with building community and finding kin—biological or chosen—to collaboratively author alternative historical narratives that counterbalance the often debilitating narratives empire has prescribed. The connections the protagonists of these novels forge and the stories they tell also act as restorative community building measures to redress the way state violences have separated, displaced, or otherwise impeded kinship. By focusing on the way these authors reframe kinship and community in the wake of empire’s violence, my dissertation sheds light on how empire’s reverberations are not only present in discussions of war and economics, but also in our relationships.

Blood Ground

2002-12-03 Political Science

Author : Elizabeth Elbourne
Release : 2002-12-03
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Blood Ground written by Elizabeth Elbourne. This book was released on 2002-12-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Ground traces the transition from religion to race as the basis for policing the boundaries of the "white" community. Elbourne suggests broader shifts in the relationship of missions to colonialism B as the British movement became less internationalist, more respectable, and more emblematic of the British imperial project B and shows that it is symptomatic that many Christian Khoekhoe ultimately rebelled against the colony. Missionaries across the white settler empire brokered bargains B rights in exchange for cultural change, for example B that brought Aboriginal peoples within the aegis of empire but, ultimately, were only partially and ambiguously fulfilled.

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