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Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America

Author(s)

Heather Whiteside

Edition
ISBN

9781788217989, 9781788217972, 9781788217996

Publisher

Agenda Publishing

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PDF and EPUB

Description

The mythic story of English America’s origins has long focused on the Mayflower pilgrims and their 1620 democratic compact. Less well known are the activities of the leading joint-stock royal charter companies that established colonial settlements like those of the Virginia and Hudson’s Bay Companies. Operating in ways often independent of the Crown, these for-profit companies established communities, trade routes and legal regimes in what Whiteside terms “proprietary settler colonialism”, all of which were pivotal in shaping the political-economic transformation of British North American colonies and their capitalist evolution. The fortunes of these company colonies were built on unfree labour, the appropriation of land and displacement of Indigenous peoples. The book explores the consequences of colonizing companies’ activities by connecting their historical significance to contemporary struggles for reconciliation, decolonization and reclamation.

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Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America

SKU: 9781788217996

Original price was: $99.00.Current price is: $24.99.

Access Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America Now. Discount up to 90%

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Additional information

Full Title

Proprietary Settler Colonialism and the Making of North America

Author(s)

Heather Whiteside

Edition
ISBN

9781788217996, 9781788217972, 9781788217989

Publisher

Agenda Publishing

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The mythic story of English America’s origins has long focused on the Mayflower pilgrims and their 1620 democratic compact. Less well known are the activities of the leading joint-stock royal charter companies that established colonial settlements like those of the Virginia and Hudson’s Bay Companies. Operating in ways often independent of the Crown, these for-profit companies established communities, trade routes and legal regimes in what Whiteside terms “proprietary settler colonialism”, all of which were pivotal in shaping the political-economic transformation of British North American colonies and their capitalist evolution. The fortunes of these company colonies were built on unfree labour, the appropriation of land and displacement of Indigenous peoples. The book explores the consequences of colonizing companies’ activities by connecting their historical significance to contemporary struggles for reconciliation, decolonization and reclamation.