Reconsidering the First Generations of Colonial Encounters in the Lower Delaware Valley of the North American Middle Atlantic
Author(s): Lu Ann De Cunzo
Year: 2017
Summary
The Middle Atlantic region is drawing renewed interest among historians, especially during the era of first colonial settlement in the 17th century. Some are reassessing the prominent role of the Lenape and Susquehannock peoples in the course and outcomes of the encounters. Others are challenging previous interpretations of the contests among Dutch, Swedish, and English imperial actors for control over this borderland. Although these scholars are rethinking the concept of frontier, the spatial, material, and representational practices this session is highlighting have received less attention. This paper centers on these practices in the Lower Delaware Valley between the 1620s and 1700.
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Reconsidering the First Generations of Colonial Encounters in the Lower Delaware Valley of the North American Middle Atlantic. Lu Ann De Cunzo. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435126)
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Keywords
General
Borderland
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Colonial
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Frontier
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
17th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 395