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Book Review
Canada and the United States
Michael Leroy Oberg. Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 15851685. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1999. Pp. x, 239. $42.50.
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Michael Leroy Oberg's book makes the important point that English imperial policies contrasted substantially with how imperialism played out in practice. The imperial ideal assumed compliant Native people, ready and willing to be made Christian subjects. However, English settlers on the far edge of English colonization, in a hurry to accumulate land and profit, pushed Indians out of the way with violent consequences. |
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