History 162: Lecture 3 & 4

History 263: Readings in Frontier and Western History



History 162: Lectures 3 and 4
COLONIAL FRONTIERS

  1. The Multiple Frontiers of Colonial North America
    1. The "Anglo" and Eastern Biases of Colonial History
    2. The "Indian Side" of Colonial History
    3. Frontiers of Inclusion and Exclusion

  2. The Spanish-Indian Frontier: From Domination to Accommodation
    1. "The Black Legend" or "Gold, God, and Glory"
    2. New Spain's Northern Borderlands in the Seventeenth Century
      1. Desert Homelands
      2. Military and Spiritual Conquest of New Mexico
      3. Limited Colonization and Incomplete Consolidation
      4. Conquest Reversed: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 as "Revitalization Movement"
      5. Reconquest
    3. Eighteenth-Century Expansions
      1. Accommodations and the Triumph of Syncretism
      2. Defensive Expansion and the Opening of the California Frontier
      3. How the Sioux Won the West

  3. The French-Indian Frontier: Accommodation, Incorporation, and the Making of a Middle Ground
    1. "Fish, Fur, and the Faith"
    2. Colonization without Conquest
    3. Jesuit Relations
      1. Conversions
      2. Reversions
      3. Syncretism
    4. Trade Relations
      1. The Terms of Exchange
      2. The Importance of Marital Alliances
    5. The Fur Trade and the Transformation of Woodland Warfare
    6. Mutual Acculturation in the Great Lakes Country

  4. The Anglo-Indian Frontier: The Middle Ground That Was Not Found
    1. From Dependency to Domination
    2. Colonization as Conquest
    3. The Delawares' Westward Movement: From Dominance to Dependency
      1. Ambivalent Encounters
      2. Migration
      3. Accommodation
      4. Incorporation: "White Indians"
      5. Liquor
      6. Revitalization and Confederation
    4. National and Personal Independence: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Land

Visuals


The Spanish Borderlands

The French Empire in North America, ca. 1750


Indian Rebellions Against the Spanish


The Iroquois Invasions, 1640-85


Expansion of Settlement in Mainland British America, 1760-1776