1st Edition

Settler Colonial Culture and Thought in the Northeastern United States

By Christoph Strobel Copyright 2026
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides the first comprehensive work that examines the intellectual impact of New English narratives about Indigenous peoples, colonization, and the cultural influence they had in the northeastern United States. By examining works that aided in the rationalization of colonialization, Indigenous dispossession, and genocide, this book demonstrates the pervasive impact that these... Read more

Acknowledgment. Introduction: Settler Colonial Culture and Thought: Global, United States, and New England Perspectives. 1.  Puritan Invasion, Indigenous Representation, and Settler Colonial Justification. 2.  Distorting the Past: Historical Narratives and Settler Colonial Culture and Thought. 3.  Settler Colonial Culture and Thought and Cultural Production in New England and the United States. Conclusion:  The Highest Stage of Settler Colonialism: New England, the United States, the Indian Problem, Reform, Civilization, and Assimilation. Epilogue:  Legacies of Settler Colonial Culture and Resistance in the Northeastern United States. Bibliography.

 

Biography

Christoph Strobel is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the author of War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast, Native Americans of New England, The Global Atlantic: 1400–1900, The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire, and many other publications.