{"product_id":"creating-new-england-defending-the-northeast-contested-algonquian-and-english-spatial-worlds-1500-1700-paperback-softback-9781625349132","title":"Creating New England, Defending the Northeast; Contested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500-1700 (Paperback \/ softback) 9781625349132","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCreating New England, Defending the Northeast\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eContested Algonquian and English Spatial Worlds, 1500-1700\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNathan Braccio (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781625349132\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 27 February 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages, 16 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCreating New England, Defending the Northeast\u003c\/i\u003e is exceedingly well-researched, and the nuance is brought in through the use of multiple case studies that build up the complicated, cooperative, and conflicting moments that contribute to the ways in which English and Algonquian people identified themselves both in relationship to the lands around them and to one another.\" - Marie Balsley Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This innovative and impressive new book, a welcome addition to the understanding of spatial culture of Indigenous New England, advances its arguments using rare primary sources, especially map manuscripts that include characteristics of Algonquian views of their homeland. This is not a story of decline, but how the Massachusetts, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and neighboring tribes continued to make southern New England home, despite the overwhelming odds against them. Braccio shows how Native people strove to protect their rights to the land in a changing world.\" - Micah Pawling, author of \u003ci\u003eWabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining maps and placemaking during negotiations between Indigenous people and colonial settlers\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Between 1500 and 1700, Indigenous and English mapmakers across the North Atlantic depicted present-day New England in markedly distinct ways, highlighting how differently their communities understood the landscape. While English cartographers relied on new mathematics and other developing scientific knowledge from Europe, as well as an overhead perspective of the world, Algonquian mapmakers drew on deep knowledge of the landscape, derived from their communities' long history upon it. Nathan Braccio refers to this phenomenon as 'parallel landscapes.' \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eCreating New England, Defending the Northeast \u003c\/i\u003easserts that Algonquian knowledge of the landscape represented a powerful and persistent alternative to English surveying and mapmaking in the Northeast. When English colonists and explorers recognized the unsuitability of their techniques for understanding New England's unfamiliar landscape, they attempted to appropriate Indigenous knowledge and maps. Algonquian sachems used this as an opportunity to control and benefit from their new English neighbors. Later, as the English became insecure in their dependence on Indigenous people, they began to remake and mark the landscape. Algonquians adapted, maintaining control of important spatial knowledge, even in a place no longer entirely of their making. This story complicates narratives of conquest and highlights the Indigenous spatial knowledge too often overlooked.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Describers of England: Origins of Colonial Conceptions of Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfitable Land: English Exploration in the Northeast, 1520–1592\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreating the Northeast: The Spatial Cultures of Northeastern Algonquian Peoples\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpert Knowledge: English Appropriation of Algonquian Expertise, 1600–1620\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImagining a Hybrid \"New England\": Indigenous Influences on English Ideas of the Land, 1620–1635\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rise of Surveyors and the Creation of a New, English, Spatial Culture, 1635–1660\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Algonquian Knowledge and the Indigenization of English Maps and Borders, 1660–1689\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Massachusetts Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702184309016,"sku":"9781625349132","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/creating-new-england-defending-the-northeast-contested-algonquian-and-english-spatial-worlds-1500-1700-paperback-softback-9781625349132","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}