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Borderlands, Settlement & Colonial Encounters ‘ This extraordinary digital collection gives you the Experience life on the frontiers potential to range across vast of the Anglophone world. spaces and temporal periods and to zoom in on really useful The settling of vast areas material in a few clicks’  Alan Lester of the world by Europeans Professor of Historical Geography, has left a particular and University of Sussex lasting influence on history. This collection of digitised primary source documents sheds light on the many Overview dynamics of frontier existence This online collection captures the lives of people living and its lasting influence. on the edge of European settlement across the various frontiers of North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Through a huge array of digitised primary source materials it documents the creation of new states, trade networks, and movements of people in these regions alongside the marginalisation and decline of indigenous peoples. Material ranges across four centuries, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century.

Frontier Life brings together documents from sixteen archives and libraries around the world. This geographical spread of material allows users to take a comparative approach or focus on a particular region, making it ideal for teaching and student projects, as well as more in-depth scholarly research.

The vast majority of the collection is never-before published, making it a vital resource for scholars and students of colonialism and imperialism, global history, historical geography, indigenous studies, the American West, Africa, Australasia, migration, borderlands and economic history. Key Themes Highlights Material Types

• Settlement and colonial • Records of expeditions allowing for comparison of • Letters development exploration in North America, Africa and Australia. • Diaries • Law and order • Material on the fur trade including the Robert • Government papers • Violence Campbell papers and further documents from the Missouri History Museum, St. Louis Mercantile • Books • Expeditions and Library, the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and exploration the Glenbow Museum. •  Artwork and Photographs Relations with • •  Letters of application of the 1820 settlers to the • Business documents indigenous peoples • Women’s history Cape Colony. • Maps • Trade and commerce • Military history • Abel Janney’s captivity narrative after his • Death and disease • Mining imprisonment by the Shawnee Indians. • Missionaries and • Religion • Gold rush and mining material relating to Klondike, religion • Gold rushes Victoria, California, and the Transvaal. • Settler governance •  Dispatches from Arthur Phillip, first Governor of New Contested boundaries South Wales, relating to the settlement of Australia • and first encounters with Aboriginal peoples. • Agriculture and livestock •  Broadsides documenting the long and complicated history of Mexico-Texas relations before 1849, including material relating to the Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War. Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters examines Consultant Editors settlement, existence and interactions at the edge of the Anglophone world Peter Blodgett Richard Price from 1650-1920. These digitised primary source documents cover the frontiers Huntington Library, University of Maryland, of North America, Africa and Australasia. California College Park Elizabeth Elbourne Samuel Truett McGill University, University of New Mexico Quebec Source Archives Lorenzo Veracini Material has been carefully selected from archives Ted Koditschek Swinburne University of around the world: University of Missouri, Technology, Victoria Columbia American Philosophical Society, Pennsylvania Elliot West Alan Lester University of Arkansas, California Historical Society University of Sussex Fayetteville Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin Earlham College, Indiana Glenbow Museum Guilford College, North Carolina Subject Areas Hudson’s Bay Company Archives and Archives of Manitoba Frontier Life is an interdisciplinary resource that will appeal to a wide range of scholars and students Lilly Library, Indiana University working on subjects such as: Massachusetts Historical Society • Colonialism and imperialism Missouri History Museum • The American West Royal Commonwealth Society collections at Cambridge University Library • Transnationalism State Library of New South Wales • Migration St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University • Economic history of Missouri – St. Louis • Indigenous studies The National Archives, UK • Social and cultural history University of California, San Diego • Historical geography University of Melbourne Library Contact us for a free trial at • Settler-colonial studies www.amdigital.co.uk

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