British Forts and Their Communities : Archaeological and Historical Perspectives /
edited by Christopher R. DeCorse and Zachary J.M. Beier.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: British forts and their communities / British forts in northern New York State / Maintaining the military: blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac (Michigan) / At the margins of empire: British colonial policy and Fort Haldimand, Carleton Island, New York (1778-1784) / The fort and the village: landscape and identity in the colonial period of Fort Vancouver / Tracing the fur trade: British fort sites along the Columbia River / Everyday entanglements: labor and diversity at the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica / Enslaved Africans and the British military at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies / Landlords and strangers: British forts and their communities in West Africa / Supporting the fort: James Island, exchange, and entanglement in Atlantic Gambia / People at the gates: Fort WIllshire and cultural transformation in the Eastern Cape, South Africa / Zachary J.M. Beier and Christopher R. DeCorse -- David R. Starbuck -- Amy Roache-Fedchenko -- Douglas J. Pippin -- Douglas C. Wilson -- Robert J. Cromwell -- Zachary J.M. Beier -- Gerald F. Schroedl -- Christopher R. DeCorse -- Liza Gijanto -- Floredeliz T. Bugarin.
This book is about the diverse communities associated with English and British forts of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It casts new light on forts and their communities by asking new questions and applying innovative methodological approaches.