The Indians' New World

Merrell, James H.

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“…32 Moreover, the more general concept of imperial 'zones of contact' means that American historians are now reading these books together with James Merrell's The Indian's New World, Ned Blackhawk's Violence over the land, and Harvey Neptune's study of American soldiers in the then-British colony of Trinidad. 33 These works all problematise the precise location of national boundaries, highlight racist American violence, and explore the extent to which cultural transmissions flowed in more than one direction. The cumulative effect is to present American domestic race relations and American overseas activities as mutually constitutive developments.…”

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Revisiting America's Occupation of Japan

Hein¹

2011

Cold War History

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This essay surveys and evaluates the last decade of English-language scholarship on the Occupation of Japan, locating it within American history, Japanese history, post-colonial studies, and the new international history, noting how new work in each field affects our interpretations.The current US military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have sparked renewed interest in the occupation of Japan, as scholars and policymakers grope for better ways to understand global affairs, particularly since John Dower's multi-prize-winning volume, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II had already energised the field. In a major change, Americans across the political spectrum are far more willing to view their nation as an imperial power than in the past. In a neat parallel, scholars today also see Japan's history of imperial overreach and subsequent loss of its colonies as far more like the histories of other mid-twentieth century places than did previous analysts. Rather than exceptional, these are 'normal nations' . Japanese-language work shows the same trend. 1 In addition to providing a stronger comparative framework, post-colonial analysis also has shifted our attention to new topics within the Occupation experience, such as fraternisation. Meanwhile, the 'new international history' of the United States not only places the Occupation within its international context, but also explores the effects of US experiences overseas on Americans at home. Synthesising these different approaches to history allows for a far more complex and cross-cutting picture of the transnational relationships that characterised Occupied Japan than in the past, as explored below. They anchor the Occupation era far more firmly within American history and also help us better understand the place of the Asia-Pacific region in the Cold War world.

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Revisiting America's Occupation of Japan

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2011

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“…31 Reliant on European guns among other commodities, piedmont Siouans became dependent on trade with colonists. 32 Th e presence of forts and the movement of Rangers impinged on the 34 For a time, moving southward and westward gave the Saponis some respite, but aft er the settlement of 1701, in which the Iroquois made peace with the French Indians to the north and west, their situation worsened. Th e Iroquois directed even more of their raiding eff orts toward their longstanding enemies to the south.…”

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A Community of Convenience: The Saponi Nation, Governor Spotswood, and the Experiment at Fort Christanna, 1670-1740

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Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule

Babcock

2016

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As a definitive study of the poorly understood Apaches de paz, this book explains how war-weary, mutually suspicious Apaches and Spaniards negotiated an ambivalent compromise after 1786 that produced over four decades of uneasy peace across the region. In response to drought and military pressure, thousands of Apaches settled near Spanish presidios in a system of reservation-like establecimientos, or settlements, stretching from Laredo to Tucson. Far more significant than previously assumed, the establecimientos constituted the earliest and most extensive set of military-run reservations in the Americas and served as an important precedent for Indian reservations in the United States. As a case study of indigenous adaptation to imperial power on colonial frontiers and borderlands, this book reveals the importance of Apache-Hispanic diplomacy in reducing cross-cultural violence and the limits of indigenous acculturation and assimilation into empires and states.

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The Indians' New World

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Revisiting America's Occupation of Japan

Revisiting America's Occupation of Japan

A Community of Convenience: The Saponi Nation, Governor Spotswood, and the Experiment at Fort Christanna, 1670-1740

Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule

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