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- Title
- John Askin's many beneficial binds : family, trade, and empire in the Great Lakes
- Creator
- Carroll, Justin M.
- Date
- 2011
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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This dissertation argues that John Askin, a prominent British merchant, provides a vista from which to view the fluidity of the Atlantic fur trade and the constraints of the British Empire in the late-eighteenth-century North American Great Lakes. Through the critical exploration of Askin's life, family, and trade, this work examines the complex contestation and negotiation that confronted individuals as they went about their lives, businesses and day-to-day interests. Consideration of the...
Show moreThis dissertation argues that John Askin, a prominent British merchant, provides a vista from which to view the fluidity of the Atlantic fur trade and the constraints of the British Empire in the late-eighteenth-century North American Great Lakes. Through the critical exploration of Askin's life, family, and trade, this work examines the complex contestation and negotiation that confronted individuals as they went about their lives, businesses and day-to-day interests. Consideration of the family that Askin nurtured, the imperial and economic relationships that he maintained, and the public image he crafted shows that Askin maintained constant involvement with the complicated economic and social processes of the multi-ethnic communities in which he lived. Likewise, the network of kinship and colleagues that Askin developed allowed him to mute disruptive imperial demands and quell the economic uncertainty that occasionally defined the Great Lakes. Askin nurtured relationships with important British imperial officials like Major Arent Schuyler de Peyster and maintained several multi-ethnic families that connected him to new regions of the fur trade. This dissertation argues that Askin leveraged these relationships into a prosperous trade and established him as one of the region's dominant merchants, but his economic initiatives competed with British imperial designs, eventually making him a target of zealous British officials during the crisis of the American Revolution.
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- Title
- Speech by Lord Tennyson, Governor of South Australia
- Creator
- Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson, Baron, 1852-1928
- Date
- 1899/1902
- Collection
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description
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Speech by Lord Tennyson, governor of South Australia, given at Government House in South Australia.
- Title
- The Colonial Office and the emergence of the National Congress of British West Africa
- Creator
- Eluwa, Gabriel Ihie Chinenye, 1928-
- Date
- 1967
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Islam, gender, and colonialism : social and religious transformations in the Muslim Court of the Gambia, 1905--1970
- Creator
- Saho, Bala SK
- Date
- 2012
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Description
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"This dissertation focuses on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Islamic, colonial, and gender history of the Senegambia region of West Africa. It combines the use of oral sources with a largely unstudied body of archival records generated by Muslim courts since their creation by the British in 1905 to explore the establishment and maintenance of multiple and often competing legal terrains and judicial traditions. The study reveals the complications and contradictions of British...
Show more"This dissertation focuses on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Islamic, colonial, and gender history of the Senegambia region of West Africa. It combines the use of oral sources with a largely unstudied body of archival records generated by Muslim courts since their creation by the British in 1905 to explore the establishment and maintenance of multiple and often competing legal terrains and judicial traditions. The study reveals the complications and contradictions of British colonialism in the Gambia through the everyday lives of women and men in the colonial city of Bathurst. It also demonstrates how the creation of the Muslim court by the British brought changes to relations within Gambian households as women took advantage of opportunities provided by the British colonial administration to challenge existing systems of patriarchy, marriage, divorce, child custody, maintenance, and property rights issues."--Abstract.
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- Title
- The African-British long eighteenth century and Sierra Leone : a reading of diplomtic [sic] treaties, economic and anthropological discourse, and Syl Cheney-Coker's "The last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar
- Creator
- Caulker, Tcho Mbaimba, 1977-
- Date
- 2008
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- The administration of Henry Ellis : royal governor of Georgia, 1756-1760
- Creator
- Russell, Charles Everett
- Date
- 1957
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- The Nawinda court and British-Lozi-Balovale relations 1927-1941
- Creator
- Hanson, John H., 1956-
- Date
- 1982
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations