Shock of Colonialism in New England

Meghan C. L. Howey is professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Fragments from Mapping 2. Fragments from Becoming 3. Fragments from Becoming (the English Perspective) 4. Fragments from “Disorderly Elements” 5. Fragments from Shifting Realities 6. Fragments from Violence Conclusion: Washing Away Notes Bibliography Index

"Meghan Howey has written a timely book that will change your thinking about early New England as well as its relationship to the present."—Emerson W. Baker, author of A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience"People often ask what book I recommend about archaeology, Abenaki heritage, or colonial history in seacoast New Hampshire . . . this is it! Widely researched, locally grounded, and highly readable, Meghan Howey's new book places Great Bay history in broad context. Like Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten for a climate conscious audience."—Alexandra G. Martin, archaeologist at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and editor of The New Hampshire Archeologist."Howey's use of archaeological and cartographic evidence is superb—she is a well-established and respected archaeologist, and she has run a project in the estuary, the Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS), for years. No one knows the long history of this place better than Howey." —Robbie Ethridge, author of From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715"Howey moves beyond the conventional historical focus on tensions, hostilities, and massacres to reveal a more nuanced story of interaction and cultural navigation. . . . The book is engaging and well written." —CHOICE"The Shock of Colonialism in New England is an important case study for examining sociopolitical and human-environment relationships in the context of settler colonialism and the consequences Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities bear today." —Siobhan M. Hart, author of Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England