Colonial America

Colonizers 1400 - 1800 & Research Workshop

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S

Wednesday, September 6

coming up

• Academic Honesty quiz Sept 11
• Objects paper due Monday Sept 25 (BB)

Chicago citations

• Maeve Kane, "Covered with Such a Cappe: The Archaeology of Seneca Clothing, 1615–1820." Ethnohistory 61, no. 1 (2014): 1-25.
• Anderson, Fred. The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. New York: Viking, 2005, 20-25.
• “Amulet in the Form of Miniature Shackles.” National Museum of African American History and Culture. Accessed September 4, 2017. https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.46.1

finding objects

• Albany Institute of History and Art
• McCord Museum
• Musee du Quai Branly
• Metropolitan Museum of Art
• National Museum of African American History
• All Smithsonian Museum collections

finding primary sources

• Eighteenth Century Collections Online
• American Antiquarian Society periodicals
• Colonial America UK Colonial Office Records
• American National Biography
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• Internet Archive

finding secondary sources

• Library eDiscover
• Library ejournals
• WorldCat
• Google Scholar
• Library advanced search
• JSTOR

refining your search

• primary sources: use historical terms
• use quotation marks
• narrow by type
• use booleans: AND, OR, NOT
• subject vs keyword search
• filter by date
• scan the stacks

citation management

• Zotero
• Endnote
• Chicago style guide

Taylor, Colonizers 1400-1800

• why were Native people more vulnerable to European diseases?
• how did contact-era epidemic disease affect European and Native views of contact?

the Reconquista

• suspicion of conversos
• development of techniques for supervising and administering "alien" populations
• "just war" theory
• military-driven seizure of new areas

English colonization in Ireland

• (attempted) conversion of locals via settlment
• religious and loyalty requirements for colonial administrators
• rhetorical distancing from colonized
• "surrender and regrant"

Atlantic islands colonization

• Christianization as justification
• commodification of labor =/= commodification of people
• first "triangle trade"
• circumvention of trade routes in favor of export commodities
• circulation of knowledge re: profitable ventures

joint-stock and shareholding

• dispersal of financial risk and gain
• accumulation of larger pools of capital
• corporate bankruptcy without personal bankruptcy
• long distance exchange with disparate mediums of exchange
• ownership of investments separate from ownership of shares

1494 Treaty of Tordesillas and papal Inter Caetera