The story of Canada stretches back over centuries and millennia, well before the emergence of the modern nation-state. It features the complex evolution of Indigenous societies as well as the incursions of Europeans fishers, explorers and colonizers. In Before Canada, archaeologists, historians and literary scholars combine to reveal the latest research findings on this fascinating early period.
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- Montreal, CA
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- BEFORE CANADA 2
- Title 4
- Copyright 5
- CONTENTS 6
- Figures 8
- Preface and Acknowledgments 12
- Introduction: Canada before Canada 16
- 1 After Beringia: The Archaeology of Indigenous Social Networks 38
- 2 Ways of Becoming: The Apachean Departure from the Canadian Subarctic 61
- 3 The Newfoundland Fisheries in an Early Atlantic World, 1400–1550 94
- 4 Sea Change: Indigenous Navigation and Relations with Basques around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, ca. 1500–1700 130
- 5 In the Round and on the Page: Canada in the English Geographical Imaginary, circa 1600 174
- 6 Labrador Inuit at the Crossroads of Cultural Interaction 214
- 7 Corridors of Jurisdiction: The Role of Aquatic Spaces in Sovereign Claims-Making in New France (1600s–1620s) 242
- 8 Saved from the Waters: The Drowning World of Paul Lejeune 267
- 9 Debt, Liquor, and Violence in the Fur Trade 289
- 10 Maple, Beaver, and New Roots for a Global Early Canada 324
- Bibliography 346
- Contributors 416
- Index 420
