Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Maps ix
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part one: Colonial Habitation
7. 2. Sir William Alexander and North American Colonization 23
8. 3. Environment and Colonization Styles in Early Acadia and Maine 40
9. 4. The ‘Lost Colony’ of New Scotland and Its Successors, to 1670 53
10. Part two: Imperial Exchange
11. 5. ‘The best Conditioned Gentleman in the World’? Verbal and Physical Abuse in the Behaviour of Sir William Phips (with Emerson W. Baker) 71
12. 6. The Conquest of ‘Nova Scotia’: Cartographic Imperialism and the Echoes of a Scottish Past 87
13. 7. Imperialism, Diplomacies, and the Conquest of Port Royal, 1710 103
14. Part three: Aboriginal Engagement
15. 8. Amerindian Power in the Early Modern Northeast: A Reappraisal (with Emerson W. Baker) 129
16. 9. The Sakamow’s Discourtesy and the Governor’s Anger: Negotiated Imperialism and the Arrowsic Conference, 1717 153
17. 10. Pax Britannica or Pax Indigena? Planter Nova Scotia (1760–1782) and Competing Strategies of Pacification 171
18. Part four: Commemoration
19. 11. Chronologies, Counterfactuals, Trajectories, and Encounter 1604 193
20. 12. Champlain: Longevity and Commemoration 205
21. 13. Reflections on Seventeenth-Century Acadia 221
22. 14. Epilogue 233
23. Notes 237
24. Bibliography 281
25. Index 309