Colonialism in the margins : cultural encounters in New Sweden and Lapland

• Main Author: Fur, Gunlög
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill 2006; BRILL
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Atlantic World
• Subjects: Delaware > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Delaware Indians > History; Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) > History; Historia; Historieämnen; Historisk-filosofiska ämnen; History; History and philosophy subjects; History subjects; HUMANIORA och RELIGIONSVETENSKAP; HUMANITIES and RELIGION; New Sweden > History; Sweden > Colonies
• ISBN: 9004153160; 9789004153165

The first book-length study of Swedish-Indian encounters in the New Sweden colony on the Delaware River focuses on land, trade and culture from the founding in 1638 until the 1680s, and compares these relations with Swedish interaction with Saami people.

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Colonialism and cultural encounters -- A Note on Sources -- Chapter 1. Power on the Periphery -- Sweden as a colonizing power in the seventeenth century -- Of Various Qualities . . . More Inclined Towards Bad than Towards Good -- Chapter 2. Interaction in the North -- Swedish intrusion in the Lappmarks -- Taxation and Land Ownership -- Trade and Commerce -- Swedish law and Saami customs -- Mission and cultural conflict -- Chapter 3. Swedish Overseas Expansion -- An unlikely venture-the New Sweden colony -- Chapter 4. Rightful Owners-The Swedish Colony and Indian Land -- Lenapehoking -- Lenape concepts of land ownership -- Swedes seeking Indian land -- European land claims and Lenape internal conflicts -- Arguments for Indian ownership -- Chapter 5. Two Kinds of Middlemen -- Trade in the Delaware River area -- The Swedish role in the Indian trade -- Trade conflicts -- Food trade and dependence on Lenapes -- Conditions for trade -- Sweden's "if . . . only" in the New World -- Chapter 6. Strangely Kept and Protected -- Cultural contacts and conflicts in the Delaware Valley -- Negotiating conflicts -- Religious exchanges -- Daily interactions in the colony -- Alcohol, health, and disease -- Chapter 7. Alignments-The Interim Years 1655-1682 -- Indian-Swedish-Dutch relations -- Indian-English-Swedish relations -- Swedish colonists in the wilderness -- Chapter 8. Stories-Swedish Colonial Encounters in a Comparative Perspective -- New Sweden and Lapland-two Swedish colonies? -- The question of land, trade, and cultural practices -- Swedish-Indian relations in an American perspective -- Stories and their power -- Bibliography -- General Index -- The Atlantic World