HIST 434 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Total War, Critical Geography, Pax Britannica
14 Jun 2017
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: french move away from occupied territory -explicit in wanting to maintain shing rights off the coast of newfoundland ! Ed, the treaty seems tog o against what was previously british -line dividing the british and french territories at the mississippi -french cede louisiana to spanish ! Describes a space of accommodation and transformation between villages and empires, process of mutual invention -north america concepts of sovereignty. Pax britannica, treaty of niagara 1764 - gathering of 24 nations at niagara, exchange wampum, presents, agree on terms of peace ! Sir william johnson: advocating for the middle ground, married to joseph brants sister, kinship ties remain! West engraving, kidnapped babies during seven years war -kinship disrupted by race - indigenous forms of governance were shaken ! The atlantic neptune, 1780"s detailed mapping of sounds and territory -mapping halifax founded.
