Nathan Braccio is assistant professor of History at Clark University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Early American Studies and the Historical Journal of Massachusetts.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionThe Describers of England: Origins of Colonial Conceptions of SpaceProfitable Land: English Exploration in the Northeast, 1520–1592Creating the Northeast: The Spatial Cultures of Northeastern Algonquian PeoplesExpert Knowledge: English Appropriation of Algonquian Expertise, 1600–1620Imagining a Hybrid "New England": Indigenous Influences on English Ideas of the Land, 1620–1635The Rise of Surveyors and the Creation of a New, English, Spatial Culture, 1635–1660New Algonquian Knowledge and the Indigenization of English Maps and Borders, 1660–1689EpilogueNotesIndex

"Creating New England, Defending the Northeast is exceedingly well-researched, and the nuance is brought in through the use of multiple case studies that build up the complicated, cooperative, and conflicting moments that contribute to the ways in which English and Algonquian people identified themselves both in relationship to the lands around them and to one another." - Marie Balsley Taylor, author of Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England "This innovative and impressive new book, a welcome addition to the understanding of spatial culture of Indigenous New England, advances its arguments using rare primary sources, especially map manuscripts that include characteristics of Algonquian views of their homeland. This is not a story of decline, but how the Massachusetts, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and neighboring tribes continued to make southern New England home, despite the overwhelming odds against them. Braccio shows how Native people strove to protect their rights to the land in a changing world." - Micah Pawling, author of Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat

Nathan Braccio is assistant professor of History at Clark University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Early American Studies and the Historical Journal of Massachusetts.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionThe Describers of England: Origins of Colonial Conceptions of SpaceProfitable Land: English Exploration in the Northeast, 1520–1592Creating the Northeast: The Spatial Cultures of Northeastern Algonquian PeoplesExpert Knowledge: English Appropriation of Algonquian Expertise, 1600–1620Imagining a Hybrid "New England": Indigenous Influences on English Ideas of the Land, 1620–1635The Rise of Surveyors and the Creation of a New, English, Spatial Culture, 1635–1660New Algonquian Knowledge and the Indigenization of English Maps and Borders, 1660–1689EpilogueNotesIndex

"Creating New England, Defending the Northeast is exceedingly well-researched, and the nuance is brought in through the use of multiple case studies that build up the complicated, cooperative, and conflicting moments that contribute to the ways in which English and Algonquian people identified themselves both in relationship to the lands around them and to one another." - Marie Balsley Taylor, author of Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England "This innovative and impressive new book, a welcome addition to the understanding of spatial culture of Indigenous New England, advances its arguments using rare primary sources, especially map manuscripts that include characteristics of Algonquian views of their homeland. This is not a story of decline, but how the Massachusetts, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and neighboring tribes continued to make southern New England home, despite the overwhelming odds against them. Braccio shows how Native people strove to protect their rights to the land in a changing world." - Micah Pawling, author of Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat

Nathan Braccio is assistant professor of History at Clark University. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Early American Studies and the Historical Journal of Massachusetts.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroductionThe Describers of England: Origins of Colonial Conceptions of SpaceProfitable Land: English Exploration in the Northeast, 1520–1592Creating the Northeast: The Spatial Cultures of Northeastern Algonquian PeoplesExpert Knowledge: English Appropriation of Algonquian Expertise, 1600–1620Imagining a Hybrid "New England": Indigenous Influences on English Ideas of the Land, 1620–1635The Rise of Surveyors and the Creation of a New, English, Spatial Culture, 1635–1660New Algonquian Knowledge and the Indigenization of English Maps and Borders, 1660–1689EpilogueNotesIndex

"Creating New England, Defending the Northeast is exceedingly well-researched, and the nuance is brought in through the use of multiple case studies that build up the complicated, cooperative, and conflicting moments that contribute to the ways in which English and Algonquian people identified themselves both in relationship to the lands around them and to one another." - Marie Balsley Taylor, author of Indigenous Kinship, Colonial Texts, and the Contested Space of Early New England "This innovative and impressive new book, a welcome addition to the understanding of spatial culture of Indigenous New England, advances its arguments using rare primary sources, especially map manuscripts that include characteristics of Algonquian views of their homeland. This is not a story of decline, but how the Massachusetts, Narragansetts, Wampanoags, and neighboring tribes continued to make southern New England home, despite the overwhelming odds against them. Braccio shows how Native people strove to protect their rights to the land in a changing world." - Micah Pawling, author of Wabanaki Homeland and the New State of Maine: The 1820 Journal and Plans of Survey of Joseph Treat