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Armstrong, Sally. The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: The First Woman Settler of the Miramichi. Toronto, Canada: Random House Canada Limited, 2007.

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Dominy, Graham. The Garrison and the Wider Society. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040047.003.0009.

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This chapter examines the reflection of the British military hierarchy in the class relations in settler society by comparing the “respectable” actions of soldiers taking their discharge and becoming settlers with the “rough” actions of drunkenness and desertion. It first considers the garrison's influence in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in Natal before discussing the social side of the garrison that emphasized class differentiation. It then explores the reinforcement of the colonial “middling” class by the recruitment of respectable soldier-settlers and how the Christian converts of Edendale, the amaKholwa, provided the new reference points for a community attempting to define itself in terms of middle-class respectability. It also looks at the role of drunkenness in acts of indiscipline and low morale among British troops in the garrison at Fort Napier, along with the hunting ideology that fed into broader concepts of masculinity, aggression, and images of warriors. The chapter shows that garrison activities were integral to the wider social and cultural life of settler society in Natal.

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Glasgow Society (in connection with the Established Church of Scotland) for Promoting the Religious Interests of Scottish Settlers in British North America., ed. A review of the Supplement to the first annual report of the society for promoting the religious interests of Scottish settlers in British North America: In a series of letters to the Rev. Robert Burns, originally published in the Acadian Recorder, Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Glasgow?: s.n.], 1987.

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Conway, Stephen. Britannia's Auxiliaries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808701.001.0001.

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This book provides the first wide-ranging attempt to consider the continental European contribution to the eighteenth-century British Empire. The British benefited from many different European inputs—financial, material, and, perhaps most importantly, human. Continental Europeans appeared in different British imperial sites as soldiers, settlers, scientists, sailors, clergymen, merchants, and technical experts. They also sustained the empire from without—through their financial investments, their consumption of British imperial goods, their supply of European products, and by aiding British imperial communication. Continental Europeans even provided Britons with social support from their own imperial bases. Britannia’s Auxiliaries explores the means by which continental Europeans came to play a part in British imperial activity, at a time when, at least in theory, overseas empires were meant to be exclusionary structures, intended to serve national purposes. It looks at the ambitions of the continental Europeans themselves, and at the encouragement given to their participation both by private interests in the British Empire and by the British state. Despite the extensive involvement of continental Europeans, the empire remained essentially British. Indeed, the empire seems to have changed the Europeans who entered it more than they changed the empire. This study, then, qualifies recent scholarly emphasis on the transnational forces that undermined the efforts of imperial authorities to maintain control of their empires. In the British case, the state seems, for the most part, to have managed the process of continental involvement in ways that furthered British interests.

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Dominy, Graham. Pageantry, Pioneers, Panics and Punitive Expeditions. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040047.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the role of the garrison in the British Empire's establishment of a colonial state in Natal during the period 1840s–1860s. It first explains how the garrison transformed Pietermaritzburg from a Trekker settlement to a Victorian colonial capital before considering the ways in which the British Crown used pageantry and propaganda to reinforce the prestige of the colonial state while masking the military weakness of the garrison in relation to the colony's potential enemies. It then discusses the garrison's “punitive expeditions”—almost as an extension of the parading on the barrack square of Fort Napier—in response to panic and rumors of invasions. Ironically, those raids provoked “panics” among the African population; such panics fed the almost pathological fear that the settlers had of a “native” rising or “combination.” The chapter also looks at the appointment of British military officers in various civil posts in the colony and concludes with an assessment of the Zulu invasion scare of 1861 and the question that it raised regarding payment for the garrison.

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Dominy, Graham. Ceremonies and Crises. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040047.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the themes of crisis and ceremony as the Colony of Natal matured and the garrison of Fort Napier faced greater threats, particularly from beyond its borders, during the period 1860s–1890s. In 1856, the Crown granted the Charter of Natal in which the settlers received elected representation in the Legislative Council, and the district became the fully fledged Colony of Natal. This chapter first describes the raids carried out by the Basotho border chief Lesaoana against the new colony and the reaction of British generals before discussing the ceremony, whereby a detachment of the 99th Regiment fired a Royal salute, to mark Natal's annexation of the small territory that was named Alfred County. It also considers the British military's brutal suppression of the Hlubi chiefdom and the banishment and imprisonment of their leader, Langalibalele ka Mtihimkulu, on Robben Island. Finally, it explores the events of the Anglo-Zulu War, which bring the themes of pageantry and panic, ceremony and crisis into acute focus and into close relationship with each other.

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Steinberg, Ellen F., and Jack H. Prost. The Early Jewish Presence in the Middle West. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036200.003.0002.

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This chapter describes the early Jewish settlers in the Midwest. The first one was a German-Jew from Berlin named Ezekiel Solomon who landed at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula in 1761. A simple marker, erected by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, in Michilimackinac State Park, Mackinaw City, says that he survived an Ojibwa massacre at Fort Michilimackinac in 1763, was a fur trader who ran a general store provisioning the British Army, and was one of the founders of Canada's first (Sephardic rite) synagogue, Montreal's Shearith Israel. The chapter also details how during the 1800s and even as late as the 1910s, Jews who kept kosher often had a difficult time during their overland journeys to or through the Midwest. They either had to carry food with them hoping their supplies would last until they reached their destination; subsist on purchased or bartered eggs, milk, nuts, and/or fruits, if they could find them; or eat at “kosher” hotels or boarding houses of which there were woefully few.

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A memorial from the Committee of Missions of the Presbyterian Church of Nova Scotia to the Glasgow Society for Promoting the Religious Interests of the Scottish Settlers in British North America: With observations on the constitution of that society and upon the proceedings and first annual report of the committee of directors. [Edinburgh?: s.n.], 1987.

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Strong, Rowan. The Oxford Movement and Missions. Edited by Stewart J. Brown, Peter Nockles, and James Pereiro. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199580187.013.40.

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This chapter examines four initial facets of mission that emerged from the Oxford Movement as dimensions of later Anglo-Catholicism in the Anglican Communion. These were first, Anglo-Catholic infiltration of the High Church Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; second, colonial missions to settler communities in the British Empire; third, institutional missions to India, such as the Oxford Mission to Calcutta; and fourth, a unique and early example of an enculturated mission in India associated with the Society of St John the Evangelist. The use of religious communities is highlighted, including an example of indigenous non-British mission in the Melanesian Brotherhood.

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Armstrong, Sally. The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor: The First Woman Settler of the Miramichi. Random House Canada, 2007.

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Dominy, Graham. Establishing an Imperial Presence. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040047.003.0003.

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This chapter examines the circumstances under which British troops were initially deployed in Natal and the factors that led to the establishment of a permanent presence. To this end, the chapter describes the events preceding the arrival of a British column at Port of Natal in 1842. The first phase of British military involvement took place on the coast at Natal, or Durban, between 1842 and 1843. Thereafter the scene shifts to Pietermaritzburg, where the garrison established a fort in September 1843. The chapter discusses the military clashes at Natal in May and June 1842 between the British Army and the rebellious Trekkers. It also considers the diplomacy involved in trying to settle the issue of British control over Natal, the Trekker women's revolt against British rule, and the garrison's march on Maritzburg in 1843.

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Roesdahl, Else. Looking North-East. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.41.

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This chapter investigates British influences and imports in southern Scandinavia from the late eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries from a mainly archaeological perspective, set against contemporary political and commercial developments. The geographical extent of this area is roughly defined as the medieval Danish kingdom, but the text also touches on Norway’s much closer British connections. Danish links with England continued in various forms after the Viking Age, but decreasingly so; contacts with Germany and The Netherlands, in particular, became much more important, illustrated by the main Danish port to the west, Ribe. Two British-Danish royal marriages in the fifteenth century demonstrate British interest in the increasingly important Baltic trade, then controlled by Denmark from the castle at Elsinore. From that century onwards many Scots settled in East Danish towns—the first evidence of extensive relations between Scotland and Denmark.

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Indirect domestic influence, or, Nova Scotia as it was, as it is and as it may be: Comprising a glance at a new page in the history of the British American provinces and combining sketches of provincial character as connected with their social aspect among the first and early settlers, to the present time : with descriptions of scenery and local incident. Boston: S.M. Godfrey, 1987.

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Dreisbach, Daniel L. The Bible in American Law. Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190258849.013.33.

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The Bible has had a significant impact on American law and constitutional tradition. The early colonists who settled in British North America brought with them the English common law, a system of jurisprudence that its leading authorities claimed was based on Christianity. Moreover, laws framed in the colonies, especially in New England’s Puritan commonwealths, drew explicitly and extensively on biblical law. As secular and separationists perspectives gained a following in the second half of the eighteenth century and the centuries thereafter, the Bible’s influence on law faced increasing challenges, and only laws that can be defended on secular grounds have survived into the twenty-first century.

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Hiscock, Andrew, and Helen Wilcox, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.001.0001.

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This pioneering handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The years from the coronation of Henry VII to the death of Queen Anne were turbulent times in the history of the British Church—and produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in forty chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the Church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, Puritanism, and the rise of Nonconformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, such as poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The third section focuses on individual authors, including Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. The fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, including Quakers and other sectarian groups, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and settlers in the New World. The fifth section considers key topics in early modern religious literature, from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgement, and eternity. The handbook is framed by an introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.

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Manz, Stefan, and Panikos Panayi. Enemies in the Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198850151.001.0001.

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During the First World War, Britain was the epicentre of global mass internment and deportation operations. Germans, Austro-Hungarians, Turks, and Bulgarians who had settled in Britain and its overseas territories were deemed to be a potential danger to the realm through their ties with the Central Powers and classified as ‘enemy aliens’. A complex set of wartime legislation imposed limitations on their freedom of movement, expression, and property possession. Approximately 50,000 men and some women experienced the most drastic step of enemy alien control, namely internment behind barbed wire, in many cases for the whole duration of the war and thousands of miles away from the place of arrest. This volume is the first to analyse British internment operations against civilian ‘enemies in the Empire’ during the First World War from an imperial perspective. The narrative takes a three-pronged approach. In addition to the global, it demonstrates how internment operated on a (proto-)national scale within the three selected case studies of the metropole (Britain), a white dominion (South Africa), and a colony under direct rule (India). It then moves to the local level by concentrating on the three camps Knockaloe (Britain), Fort Napier (South Africa), and Ahmednagar (India), allowing for detailed analyses of personal experiences. Although conditions were generally humane, suffering occurred. The study argues that the British Empire played a key role in developing civilian internment as a central element of warfare and national security on a global scale.

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Stanwood, Owen. The Global Refuge. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190264741.001.0001.

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Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. Exiles fleeing French persecution, they scattered around Europe and beyond following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling in North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This book offers the first global history of the Huguenot diaspora, explaining how and why these refugees became such ubiquitous characters in the history of imperialism. The story starts with dreams of Eden, as beleaguered religious migrants sought suitable retreats to build perfect societies far from the political storms of Europe. In order to create these communities, however, the Huguenots needed patrons, and they thus ran headlong into the world of politics. The refugees promoted themselves as the chosen people of empire, religious heroes who also possessed key skills that would strengthen the British and Dutch states. As a result, French Protestants settled around the world—they tried to make silk in South Carolina; they planted vines in South Africa; and they peopled vulnerable frontiers from New England to Suriname. Of course, this embrace of empire led to a gradual abandonment of the Huguenots’ earlier utopian ambitions. They realized that only by blending in, and by mastering foreign institutions, could they prosper in a quickly changing world. Nonetheless, they managed to maintain a key role in the early modern world well into the eighteenth century, before the coming of Revolution upended the ancien régime.

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