HIS 2361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: James Axtell, Copper Kettle, Dictionary Of Canadian Biography
1 Feb 2017
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From sign to sign research poster competition, rst deadline: 17 feb, have your subject approved by a professor and submit you application. Further guidance re: primary source analysis, due date feb 3. Relations with locals is not always positive. Usually managed an escape, some were traded, some lived out life happily with the naives. England sees this as them being tested by god, redemption = sign from god. Tells a lot about the natives, not a lot were recording what the natives culture was. Missionaries and captives are the two groups with insight. Great for what they tell us about euro american view of indigenous people. No printing press in new france ever. Just a five page analysis of the text, do not have to annotate. Info is found in the footnotes of the text. Must represent something different that the introduction that. Accompanies the text: make it better, add stuff, dictionary of canadian biography.
