Author Description

Introduction: British identities, indigenous peoples and the empire / Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern -- The British and indigenous peoples, 1760-1860: power, perception and identity / C.A. Bayly -- Encounters between British and "indigenous" peoples, c. 1500-c. 1800 / Philip D. Morgan -- Native Americans and early modern concepts of race / Kathleen Brown -- Praying with the enemy: Daniel Gookin, King Philip's War and the dangers of intercultural mediatorship / Louise A. Breen -- The cutting edge of culture: British soldiers encounter Native Americans in the French and Indian war / Peter Way -- Protecting trade through war: Choctaw elites and British occupation of the Floridas / Greg O'Brien -- Hunting and the politics of masculinity in Cherokee treaty-making, 1763-75 / Nathaniel Sheidley -- Racialization and feminization of poverty in early America: Indian women as "the poor of the town" in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- "They are so frequently shifting their place of residence": land and the construction of social place of Indians in colonial Massachusetts / Jean O'Brien -- Legitimacies, Indian identities and the law: the politics of sex and the creation of history in colonial New England / Ann Marie Plane -- Images of aboriginal childhood: contested governance in the Canadian West to 1850 / Russell Smandych and Anne McGillivray -- Authority under challenge: Pikampul land and Queen Victoria's law during the British invasion of Australia / Heather Goodall -- The genocide policy in English-Karifuna relations in the seventeenth century / Hilary Beckles -- William Knibb and the constitution of the new Black subject / Catherine Hall -- "When the saints came marching in": the Anti-Slavery Society and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean / Madhavi Kale -- North American experience and British missionary encounters in Africa and the Pacific, c. 1800-50 / Andrew Porter -- Losing faith in the civilizing mission: the prem