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The Shock of Colonialism in New England

Fragments from a Frontier

Meghan C. L. Howey

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English
The University of Alabama Press
30 April 2025
In The Shock of Colonialism in New England, archaeologist Meghan C. L. Howey uses excavations in the magnificent seventeenth-century frontier colony of the Great Bay EstuaryP8bagok in today’s New Hampshire to trace the direct line of European global colonialism to the present crises. Howey shows how this site, outside of the hub of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston, holds overlooked stories of what it meant to live through the shock of colonialism. These stories include an unexpected diversity and dynamism among English colonists, nuanced, multifaceted encounters with Indigenous peoples whose ancestors had thrived here for millennia, and lasting degrading environmental legacies of labor-intensive industries.
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Imprint:   The University of Alabama Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9780817361853
ISBN 10:   0817361855
Pages:   216
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier

""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 ""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 ""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


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