James Taylor Carson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2596786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Taylor Carson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Taylor |
| FAMILY NAME | Carson |
| SIGNATURE | CARSON J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Language tells another story: When tobacco is cistemaw and the Cree are nêhiyaw
Indigenous peoples’ trade in so-called ‘contraband’ tobacco, as a spate of recent cases in Alberta has shown, causes conflict between Indigenous peoples’ culture, history and sovereignty and federal and provincial laws. And as long as tobacco is defined solely as ‘tobacco’, the illegal trade will remain a criminal matter. But if we ask how First Peoples have named the plant and how such naming connects the plant to their lives and identities, tod…
Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country
Journal Article Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country Get access Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country. By Fay A Yarbrough. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. xii, 268 pp. $32.95.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 3…
The Second Seminole War and the Limits of American Aggression
Historians who have written about the Second Seminole War (1835–1842) agree that it shaped Jacksonian America and that our discipline has ignored its importance. C. S. Monaco addresses those points in an elegant recounting of the war, its context, and its effect. The story gains a sharp interpretive edge from Monaco's use of settler-colonialism theory and models well what could become an important cross-fertilization between the provocations of i…
We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller
"We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller." Canadian Journal of History, 53(2), pp. 335–336
Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
Christina Snyder's first book, Slavery in Indian Country (2010), expanded our understanding of the history of captivity and enslavement in America by drawing first peoples' experiences into the center of the story. Great Crossings further extends such insights to the practices of race making that gave such brute force to the expression of Jacksonian America. How racism shifted from the environmentalist underpinnings of the eighteenth century to t…
Brébeuf Was Never Martyred: Reimagining the Life and Death of Canada's First Saint
Jean de Brébeuf was a Jesuit missionary who established residence in what is conventionally called the Huron Nation but was actually the island of Wendake where the Wendat people lived. The Catholic Church celebrates his death on 16 March 1649 as an act of martyrdom, and for the past three-and-a-half centuries, secular historians have more or less agreed. Even today, one can find scholars who describe his battle on behalf of “God” against “infide…
The Columbian Covenant: Race and the writing of American history
This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical signs of
Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884
Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884." Slavery & Abolition, 35(4), pp. 670–671
Sophie White. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
One of the more unprecedented events I have found in colonial history comes from the pages of a carpenter's journal. In 1699, while building Fort Maurepas on today's Mississippi coast, André Pénicaut remarked that a party of soldiers who were out felling trees saw some people approaching, waved them over, tried to convince them no harm would come to them, and then spoke to the visitors in an Iroquoian tongue. Why were French colonizers able to sp…
Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives
Book Review| July 01 2010 Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives . Edited by John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2009. $45.00 cloth.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 471–472. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mai…
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Get access Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Yarbrough Fay A.. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x + 184 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, index. $55.00; £36.00.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Queen's University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South
Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative
Book Review| October 01 2007 Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. By Patricia Galloway. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 454 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistor…
Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America by Alfred A. Cave
Book Reviews 139 have relocated to Ontario where they have been joined by their Japanese counterparts. Ontario now produces more automobiles than Michigan, and the supply chains of both jurisdictions are mutually interlaced. The flow of goods across that border is of staggering proportions in the auto sector alone. The book's cover photograph illustrating the volume's main theme shows a 1950's-era traffic jam on the Ambassador Bridge of cars line…
The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650 , by Roger M. Carpenter
American Historians and Indians
United States's historians are almost alone in the scholarly world in using the term ‘Indian’ to describe the original inhabitants of the landmass that came to be called the Americas. The term is an artefact of Christopher Columbus's imagination, and it conditions American historiography in ways that reflect the particular logic of the first contact that Columbus initiated. This review draws upon several recent books in native history, as well as…
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands , by James F. Brooks
Teaching Amerindian Autohistory
Teaching the history of Native North America is difficult. Teachers must ask students to read and to write about past peoples whose transmission of knowledge was oral and performative. The available pool of books and articles for assignment often work more as exercises in othering than understanding. And everyone in the classroom must find some way to engage essential questions of blood and relative ones of culture. Is there a way to teach such a…
Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
Ethnogeography and the Native American Past
For the most part, scholars have failed to incorporate geography into the interdisciplinary canon of ethnohistory. At the same time, geographers writing on native history have not integrated fully the ethnohistorical method into their own work. The essay explains to ethnohistorians and geographers alike what the other has been up to and why it is vital that each group begin to consider ethnogeography as an important category of analysis. A few su…
Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Journal Article Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. By James Taylor Carson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 183 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-1503-7.) Get access Veronique Pepin Veronique Pepin University of Paris Denis Diderot, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 190, htt…
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region
Journal Article Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region. By Sandra Faiman-Silva. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xl, 273 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-2001-4. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8032-6902-1.) Get access James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Journal Article Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal Get access Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. By Carson James Taylor. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiv + 185 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $40.00.) Jack D. Elliott, Jr. Jack D. Elliott, Jr. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Search for other works by this author o…
Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
Horses and the Economy and Culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840
Alors que les Choctaws faisaient face a de profonds changements dus au contact avec les Americains et les Europeens, les chevaux devinrent les agents d'une continuite culturelle et d'un changement economique. Les chevaux etaient importants dans les activites s'etendant des jeux de balle aux rituels funeraires et ils etaient essentiels au developpement du commerce de la peau de daim, a l'economie de marche choctaw et a l'economie du betail qui fle…
Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
Christina Snyder's first book, Slavery in Indian Country (2010), expanded our understanding of the history of captivity and enslavement in America by drawing first peoples' experiences into the center of the story. Great Crossings further extends such insights to the practices of race making that gave such brute force to the expression of Jacksonian America. How racism shifted from the environmentalist underpinnings of the eighteenth century to t…
Ethnogeography and the Native American Past
For the most part, scholars have failed to incorporate geography into the interdisciplinary canon of ethnohistory. At the same time, geographers writing on native history have not integrated fully the ethnohistorical method into their own work. The essay explains to ethnohistorians and geographers alike what the other has been up to and why it is vital that each group begin to consider ethnogeography as an important category of analysis. A few su…
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South
Teaching Amerindian Autohistory
Teaching the history of Native North America is difficult. Teachers must ask students to read and to write about past peoples whose transmission of knowledge was oral and performative. The available pool of books and articles for assignment often work more as exercises in othering than understanding. And everyone in the classroom must find some way to engage essential questions of blood and relative ones of culture. Is there a way to teach such a…
After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880
Journal Article After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839–1880 Get access After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839–1880. By McLoughlin William G.. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. xv + 439 pp. Maps, notes, index. $39.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Horses and the Economy and Culture of the Choctaw Indians, 1690-1840
Alors que les Choctaws faisaient face a de profonds changements dus au contact avec les Americains et les Europeens, les chevaux devinrent les agents d'une continuite culturelle et d'un changement economique. Les chevaux etaient importants dans les activites s'etendant des jeux de balle aux rituels funeraires et ils etaient essentiels au developpement du commerce de la peau de daim, a l'economie de marche choctaw et a l'economie du betail qui fle…
Imaginary Kingdom: Texas as Seen by the Rivera and Rubi Military Expeditions, 1727 and 1767
A Rogue's Paradise: Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Florida, 1821- 1861
Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World
About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day St. Louis. This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade centre north of Mexico for centuries. This stimulating collection of essays casts new light on the remarkable accomplishments of Cahokia. Timothy R. Pauk…
With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History , by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner
"With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History, by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner." Canadian Journal of History, 34(1), pp. 135–136
A Man of Distinction among Them: Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Conquest or Progress: Old Questions and New Problems in the Ethnohistory of the Native Southeast
Review Article| October 01 2000 “Conquest or Progress!”: Old Questions and New Problems in the Ethnohistory of the Native Southeast James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (3-4): 777–790. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-777 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation James Taylor Carson; “Conquest or Prog…
Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Journal Article Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. By James Taylor Carson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xvi, 183 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8032-1503-7.) Get access Veronique Pepin Veronique Pepin University of Paris Denis Diderot, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 1, June 2001, Page 190, htt…
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region
Journal Article Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region. By Sandra Faiman-Silva. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. xl, 273 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-8032-2001-4. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-8032-6902-1.) Get access James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of America…
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Journal Article Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal Get access Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. By Carson James Taylor. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. xiv + 185 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $40.00.) Jack D. Elliott, Jr. Jack D. Elliott, Jr. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Search for other works by this author o…
Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom
Ethnogeography and the Native American Past
For the most part, scholars have failed to incorporate geography into the interdisciplinary canon of ethnohistory. At the same time, geographers writing on native history have not integrated fully the ethnohistorical method into their own work. The essay explains to ethnohistorians and geographers alike what the other has been up to and why it is vital that each group begin to consider ethnogeography as an important category of analysis. A few su…
Teaching Amerindian Autohistory
Teaching the history of Native North America is difficult. Teachers must ask students to read and to write about past peoples whose transmission of knowledge was oral and performative. The available pool of books and articles for assignment often work more as exercises in othering than understanding. And everyone in the classroom must find some way to engage essential questions of blood and relative ones of culture. Is there a way to teach such a…
Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands , by James F. Brooks
The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650 , by Roger M. Carpenter
American Historians and Indians
United States's historians are almost alone in the scholarly world in using the term ‘Indian’ to describe the original inhabitants of the landmass that came to be called the Americas. The term is an artefact of Christopher Columbus's imagination, and it conditions American historiography in ways that reflect the particular logic of the first contact that Columbus initiated. This review draws upon several recent books in native history, as well as…
Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative
Book Review| October 01 2007 Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative Practicing Ethnohistory: Mining Archives, Hearing Testimony, Constructing Narrative. By Patricia Galloway. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. 454 pp., introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index. $24.95 paper.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistor…
Prophets of the Great Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America by Alfred A. Cave
Book Reviews 139 have relocated to Ontario where they have been joined by their Japanese counterparts. Ontario now produces more automobiles than Michigan, and the supply chains of both jurisdictions are mutually interlaced. The flow of goods across that border is of staggering proportions in the auto sector alone. The book's cover photograph illustrating the volume's main theme shows a 1950's-era traffic jam on the Ambassador Bridge of cars line…
Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South
Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
Journal Article Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century Get access Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Yarbrough Fay A.. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x + 184 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, index. $55.00; £36.00.) James Taylor Carson James Taylor Carson Queen's University, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wes…
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