Jon Parmenter
Biographic Data
| ID | 682734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Parmenter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Parmenter |
| SIGNATURE | PARMENTER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Alliances and Treaties with Indigenous Peoples of Québec: The History of the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation: The Maliseet Nation of the St Lawrence . Camil Girard and Carl Brisson
Confronting Cornell University's Origins in Indigenous Dispossession
This Forum examines and challenges the existing periodization of the field of early American history. The Forum is co-organized by Vanessa M. Holden and Michael John Witgen and features contributions from Ernesto Bassi, Andrew J. Walker, Manisha Sinha, Aisha K. Finch, Honor Sachs, Jameson R. Sweet, Malinda Maynor Lowery and Christina Snyder, Michael John Witgen, Jon Parmenter, Kariann Akemi Yokota, Kathryn Olivarius, and Greta LaFleur
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution
Journal Article Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. Get access Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 298. Paper $24.95. Jon Parmenter Jon Parmenter Cornell University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
For the Good of Their Souls: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country
William Hart’s stated objective in his fine new monograph is to “problematize” the ways in which individual “faithful Mohawks” (20) engaged and performed Protestantism over the course of a long eighteenth century. Informed by deep research in a sizeable primary archive of missionary correspondence, and grounded in broad study of both ethnohistorical scholarship on Christian missionization and performance theory, Hart’s book succeeds admirably in …
A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher Parsons’ important new monograph demonstrates that the prominent Enlightenment-era debates regarding global human and biological diversity originated from the colonial experience of European nations during the seventeenth century and the resulting conflict over the means of knowledge production related to the New World. Taking the French experience in what is now the St. Lawrence River valley between modern Québec and Montréal as his …
Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
Most of the essays in this provocative edited collection originated from an academic conference. To an uncommon degree, this volume captures much of the intellectual give and take of such a venue. The editors deserve praise for their willingness to incorporate diverse, even conflicting, perspectives on the multiple intersections of law with colonialism in Iberian American and Anglo-American contexts. Emphasizing the “extraordinary variability” in…
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War
Dispersed But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People , by Kathryn Magee Labelle
Dispersed But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People, by Kathryn Magee Labelle. Vancouver & Toronto, University of British Columbia Press, 2013. xiii, 273 pp. $95.00 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). In this welcome addition to seventeenth-century North American historiography, Kathryn Labelle takes aim at the longstanding discourse of destruction surrounding the Iroquois military assault on the Wendat (Huron) nation in …
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery
Book Review| October 01 2011 The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery. By Hinderaker, Eric. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. $35.00 cloth.) Jon Parmenter Jon Parmenter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 731–733. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1333796 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions S…
The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744?1760
Journal Article The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744–1760 Get access Jon Parmenter, Jon Parmenter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Power Robison Mark Power Robison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2007, Pa…
Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (review)
Reviewed by: Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830 by Daniel J. Hulsebosch Jon Parmenter Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830. By Daniel J. Hulsebosch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. This important new book, in addition to being one of the most significant studies of the colony (and lat…
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities
As the editor of H-AmIndian, a joint project between the History Department at Arizona State University and the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online housed at Michigan State University, I have discovered that discussion threads go in cycles. Sometimes the listserv has a lively exchange of ideas between scholars on the subjects of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and professional behavior. Inexplicitly, for stretches…
In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America, edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Herrmann Wellenreuther, and Renate Wilson in cooperation with John B. Fra…
Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois
Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator
Pontiac's War: Forging New Links in the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain, 1758-1766
This essay examines the history of Pontiac's War from the perspective of the western Algonquians' entry into the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain alliance system in 1758. Recognized formally as equal diplomatic partners to Great Britain and the Six Nations by Sir William Johnson in 1761, the Great Lakes and upper Ohio Valley peoples directed their military and diplomatic efforts over the next five years toward securing and extending that status. The…
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
Most of the essays in this provocative edited collection originated from an academic conference. To an uncommon degree, this volume captures much of the intellectual give and take of such a venue. The editors deserve praise for their willingness to incorporate diverse, even conflicting, perspectives on the multiple intersections of law with colonialism in Iberian American and Anglo-American contexts. Emphasizing the “extraordinary variability” in…
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities
As the editor of H-AmIndian, a joint project between the History Department at Arizona State University and the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online housed at Michigan State University, I have discovered that discussion threads go in cycles. Sometimes the listserv has a lively exchange of ideas between scholars on the subjects of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and professional behavior. Inexplicitly, for stretches…
Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois
Confronting Cornell University's Origins in Indigenous Dispossession
This Forum examines and challenges the existing periodization of the field of early American history. The Forum is co-organized by Vanessa M. Holden and Michael John Witgen and features contributions from Ernesto Bassi, Andrew J. Walker, Manisha Sinha, Aisha K. Finch, Honor Sachs, Jameson R. Sweet, Malinda Maynor Lowery and Christina Snyder, Michael John Witgen, Jon Parmenter, Kariann Akemi Yokota, Kathryn Olivarius, and Greta LaFleur
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
Pontiac's War: Forging New Links in the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain, 1758-1766
This essay examines the history of Pontiac's War from the perspective of the western Algonquians' entry into the Anglo-Iroquois Covenant Chain alliance system in 1758. Recognized formally as equal diplomatic partners to Great Britain and the Six Nations by Sir William Johnson in 1761, the Great Lakes and upper Ohio Valley peoples directed their military and diplomatic efforts over the next five years toward securing and extending that status. The…
Seeds of Empire: The American Revolutionary Conquest of the Iroquois
Red Jacket: Iroquois Diplomat and Orator
In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America, edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Herrmann Wellenreuther, and Renate Wilson in cooperation with John B. Fra…
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities
As the editor of H-AmIndian, a joint project between the History Department at Arizona State University and the Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online housed at Michigan State University, I have discovered that discussion threads go in cycles. Sometimes the listserv has a lively exchange of ideas between scholars on the subjects of American Indian history, culture, ideas, and professional behavior. Inexplicitly, for stretches…
Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (review)
Reviewed by: Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830 by Daniel J. Hulsebosch Jon Parmenter Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664–1830. By Daniel J. Hulsebosch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. This important new book, in addition to being one of the most significant studies of the colony (and lat…
The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744?1760
Journal Article The Perils and Possibilities of Wartime Neutrality on the Edges of Empire: Iroquois and Acadians between the French and British in North America, 1744–1760 Get access Jon Parmenter, Jon Parmenter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Mark Power Robison Mark Power Robison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2007, Pa…
Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade
The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery
Book Review| October 01 2011 The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery. By Hinderaker, Eric. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. $35.00 cloth.) Jon Parmenter Jon Parmenter Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 731–733. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1333796 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions S…
Dispersed But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People , by Kathryn Magee Labelle
Dispersed But Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People, by Kathryn Magee Labelle. Vancouver & Toronto, University of British Columbia Press, 2013. xiii, 273 pp. $95.00 Cdn (cloth), $32.95 Cdn (paper). In this welcome addition to seventeenth-century North American historiography, Kathryn Labelle takes aim at the longstanding discourse of destruction surrounding the Iroquois military assault on the Wendat (Huron) nation in …
Justice in a New World: Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
Most of the essays in this provocative edited collection originated from an academic conference. To an uncommon degree, this volume captures much of the intellectual give and take of such a venue. The editors deserve praise for their willingness to incorporate diverse, even conflicting, perspectives on the multiple intersections of law with colonialism in Iberian American and Anglo-American contexts. Emphasizing the “extraordinary variability” in…
Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War
A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America
Christopher Parsons’ important new monograph demonstrates that the prominent Enlightenment-era debates regarding global human and biological diversity originated from the colonial experience of European nations during the seventeenth century and the resulting conflict over the means of knowledge production related to the New World. Taking the French experience in what is now the St. Lawrence River valley between modern Québec and Montréal as his …
For the Good of Their Souls: Performing Christianity in Eighteenth-Century Mohawk Country
William Hart’s stated objective in his fine new monograph is to “problematize” the ways in which individual “faithful Mohawks” (20) engaged and performed Protestantism over the course of a long eighteenth century. Informed by deep research in a sizeable primary archive of missionary correspondence, and grounded in broad study of both ethnohistorical scholarship on Christian missionization and performance theory, Hart’s book succeeds admirably in …
Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution
Journal Article Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. Get access Rachel B. Herrmann. No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Pp. viii, 298. Paper $24.95. Jon Parmenter Jon Parmenter Cornell University Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The America…
Confronting Cornell University's Origins in Indigenous Dispossession
This Forum examines and challenges the existing periodization of the field of early American history. The Forum is co-organized by Vanessa M. Holden and Michael John Witgen and features contributions from Ernesto Bassi, Andrew J. Walker, Manisha Sinha, Aisha K. Finch, Honor Sachs, Jameson R. Sweet, Malinda Maynor Lowery and Christina Snyder, Michael John Witgen, Jon Parmenter, Kariann Akemi Yokota, Kathryn Olivarius, and Greta LaFleur
Alliances and Treaties with Indigenous Peoples of Québec: The History of the Wolastoqiyik Wahsipekuk First Nation: The Maliseet Nation of the St Lawrence . Camil Girard and Carl Brisson
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