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Colonialism in the Margins: Cultural Encounters in New Sweden and Lapland

 by Gunlög Fur 

Colonialism in the MarginsThis 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. Gunlog Fur & Carla Messinger 3.08

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.

About the author
Gunlög Fur, Ph.D. (1993) in History, University of Oklahoma, is Associate Professor of History at Växjö University in Sweden. She has published on colonial encounters and gender in Northeast America and Northern Scandinavia.

Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. Power on the Periphery
Chapter 2. Interaction in the North
Chapter 3. Swedish Overseas Expansion
Chapter 4. Rightful Owners—The Swedish Colony and Indian Land
Chapter 5. Two Kinds of Middlemen
Chapter 6. Strangely Kept and Protected
Chapter 7. Alignments—The Interim Years
Chapter 8. Stories—Swedish Colonial Encounters in a Comparative Perspective
Bibliography
Index
Readership
Historians and ethno-historians interested in colonial America, northern Scandinavia, and the colonial heritage of early modern Europe as well as general readers with an interest in the Swedish colony and Indian history.

Publication year: 2006 Series: The Atlantic World

ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: 978 90 04 15316 5

ISBN-10: 90 04 15316 0  Cover: Hardback     Number of pages: xii, 300 pp.     List price: € 99.00 / US$ 139.00 from Brill Publishers, Netherlands

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