Michael Leroy Oberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 683168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Leroy Oberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Leroy |
| FAMILY NAME | Oberg |
| SIGNATURE | OBERG M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Geneseo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America
Journal Article Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Get access Michael John Witgen. Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press and Williansbug, VA: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2021. Pp. 366. Paper $18.00. Michael Lero…
Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America
Journal Article Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America Get access Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America. By Matthew Kruer. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021. xviii, 329 pp. $39.95.) Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg State University of New York at Geneseo, Geneseo, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…
Reply to Alaina E. Roberts
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No More Nations Within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty-Making in 1871
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Reply to Julie L. Reed
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The Way Things Matter
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Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century
In Flesh Reborn, historian Jean-François Lozier focuses his attention on the indigenous mission communities that formed and developed in the Saint Lawrence River valley. Engaging at once a number of lines of historiographical inquiry and debate, Lozier writes that in the Saint Lawrence, “Indigenous populations did not simply withdraw or disperse before an advancing colonial frontier.” Rather, these Native American settlers “drew closer to Europea…
Tribes and Towns: What Historians Still Get Wrong about the Roanoke Ventures
The Theodor De Bry map of the coast of today's North Carolina has exerted an unfortunate influence over how historians and anthropologists have described and understood the indigenous Algonquian communities of the Outer Banks and the coast of today's North Carolina, and so how they have interpreted Sir Walter Ralegh's colonizing ventures. The map is the bedrock on which many scholars have erected their own interpretations of the indigenous politi…
Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
“Slavery flourished in colonial New England,” writes Margaret Ellen Newell in Brethren by Nature, and “Native Americans formed a significant part of New England’s slave population” (3). Indian servants augmented the colonial workforce “in important ways.” They were the “dominant form of non-white labor” (5). Bound Indian laborers, who “likely numbered in the thousands” (14), performed a variety of tasks associated with “ironworks, fisheries, live…
Jace Weaver. The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927
Jace Weaver argues that “[t]he Atlantic formed a multilane, two-way bridge across which traveled ideas and things that changed both Europeans and American indigenes” (p. 30). In The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927, however, Weaver focuses less upon these broad processes than upon the familiar story of native peoples who crossed the Atlantic: atypical figures including diplomats and emissaries, soldie…
Michael Householder. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter
Journal Article Michael Householder. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter. Get access Michael Householder. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter.Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2011. Pp. x, 228. $89.95. Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg State University of New York, Geneseo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period
Book Review| October 01 2013 Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period. By Lopenzina, Drew. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xvi + 396 pp., illustrations, index. $95.00 cloth.) Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 773–775. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800
Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800 (2010), 384 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadephia, $45.00). Erik Seeman argues in Death in the New World that t
Native America: A History
List of Figures. List of Maps. Introduction. 1. Myths and Legends. The Beginning of the World. Rules for Living. Bears. 2. Worlds New and Worlds Old. The Fundamental Violence of Discovery. Paths of Destruction. Tsenacommacah. The Mohegans. New Worlds. 3. Living in the New World. Mourning Wars. Colonizing the Mohegans. The Word of God. Colonizing the Powhatans. Forging the Covenant Chain. Native Peoples and the French in a World of War. The Pueblo…
Engraving the Savage: The New World and the Techniques of Civilization (review)
Reviewed by: Engraving the Savage: The New World and the Techniques of Civilization Michael Leroy Oberg Engraving the Savage: The New World and the Techniques of Civilization. By Michael Gaudio. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Michael Gaudio’s Engraving the Savage is an exhaustive—and exhausting—analysis of the engraving in Theodor de Bry’s edition of Thomas Harriot’s Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Ga…
Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660
Book Review| October 01 2009 Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580–1660 By Cynthia J. Van Zandt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $49.95 cloth.) Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 758–759. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677
Uncas: First of the Mohegans
The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492–1800
The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492–1800." History: Reviews of New Books, 31(2), p. 63
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism, Native America, and the First American Frontiers, 1585-1685
Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of contact. Michael Leroy Oberg considers the history of Anglo-Indian relations in transatlantic context while view…
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685
King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676
Between ‘Savage Man’ and ‘Most Faithful Englishman’ Manteo and the Early Anglo-Indian Exchange, 1584–1590
In August of 1587 Manteo, an Indian from Croatoan Island, joined a group of English settlers in an attack on the native village of Dasemunkepeuc, located on the coast of present-day North Carolina. These colonists, amongst whom Manteo lived, had landed on Roanoke Island less than a month before, dumped there by a pilot more interested in hunting Spanish prize ships than in carrying colonists to their intended place of settlement along the Chesape…
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Journal Article Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. Ed. by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press Get access Eric Hinderaker Eric Hinderaker University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Journal Article Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. Ed. by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press Get access Eric Hinderaker Eric Hinderaker University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Tribes and Towns: What Historians Still Get Wrong about the Roanoke Ventures
The Theodor De Bry map of the coast of today's North Carolina has exerted an unfortunate influence over how historians and anthropologists have described and understood the indigenous Algonquian communities of the Outer Banks and the coast of today's North Carolina, and so how they have interpreted Sir Walter Ralegh's colonizing ventures. The map is the bedrock on which many scholars have erected their own interpretations of the indigenous politi…
Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
“Slavery flourished in colonial New England,” writes Margaret Ellen Newell in Brethren by Nature, and “Native Americans formed a significant part of New England’s slave population” (3). Indian servants augmented the colonial workforce “in important ways.” They were the “dominant form of non-white labor” (5). Bound Indian laborers, who “likely numbered in the thousands” (14), performed a variety of tasks associated with “ironworks, fisheries, live…
Between ‘Savage Man’ and ‘Most Faithful Englishman’ Manteo and the Early Anglo-Indian Exchange, 1584–1590
In August of 1587 Manteo, an Indian from Croatoan Island, joined a group of English settlers in an attack on the native village of Dasemunkepeuc, located on the coast of present-day North Carolina. These colonists, amongst whom Manteo lived, had landed on Roanoke Island less than a month before, dumped there by a pilot more interested in hunting Spanish prize ships than in carrying colonists to their intended place of settlement along the Chesape…
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685
Indians and Englishmen at the First Roanoke Colony: A Note on Pemisapan's Conspiracy, 1585–86
In July 1585, a collection of English soldiers and settlers supported by Sir Walter Ralegh settled on the northern end of Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of coastal North Carolina. Ralegh placed the fledgling colony under the command of Ralph Lane, a veteran of Elizabeth I’s brutal wars against the Irish. The settlement would last for only one year-abandoned, most historians agree, when Lane recognized that he faced a massive Algonquian conspir…
Indians and Englishmen at the First Roanoke Colony: A Note on Pemisapan's Conspiracy, 1585–86
In July 1585, a collection of English soldiers and settlers supported by Sir Walter Ralegh settled on the northern end of Roanoke Island in the Outer Banks of coastal North Carolina. Ralegh placed the fledgling colony under the command of Ralph Lane, a veteran of Elizabeth I’s brutal wars against the Irish. The settlement would last for only one year-abandoned, most historians agree, when Lane recognized that he faced a massive Algonquian conspir…
America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750
King Philip's War: Civil War in New England, 1675-1676
Between ‘Savage Man’ and ‘Most Faithful Englishman’ Manteo and the Early Anglo-Indian Exchange, 1584–1590
In August of 1587 Manteo, an Indian from Croatoan Island, joined a group of English settlers in an attack on the native village of Dasemunkepeuc, located on the coast of present-day North Carolina. These colonists, amongst whom Manteo lived, had landed on Roanoke Island less than a month before, dumped there by a pilot more interested in hunting Spanish prize ships than in carrying colonists to their intended place of settlement along the Chesape…
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
Journal Article Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850. Ed. by Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press and Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. By Michael Leroy Oberg. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press Get access Eric Hinderaker Eric Hinderaker University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685
Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790
Book Review| January 01 2000 Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 By Jean M. O'Brien. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii +224 pp., illustrations, prologue, conclusion. £35.00 cloth.) Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (1): 259–260. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-1-259 Cite Icon Cite Share Ic…
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685
Uncas: First of the Mohegans
The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492–1800
The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492–1800." History: Reviews of New Books, 31(2), p. 63
Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism, Native America, and the First American Frontiers, 1585-1685
Was the relationship between English settlers and Native Americans in the New World destined to turn tragic? This book investigates how the newcomers interacted with Algonquian groups in the Chesapeake Bay area and New England, describing the role that original Americans occupied in England's empire during the critical first century of contact. Michael Leroy Oberg considers the history of Anglo-Indian relations in transatlantic context while view…
Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 1676-1677
Engraving the Savage: The New World and the Techniques of Civilization (review)
Reviewed by: Engraving the Savage: The New World and the Techniques of Civilization Michael Leroy Oberg Engraving the Savage: The New World and the Techniques of Civilization. By Michael Gaudio. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Michael Gaudio’s Engraving the Savage is an exhaustive—and exhausting—analysis of the engraving in Theodor de Bry’s edition of Thomas Harriot’s Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia. Ga…
Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580-1660
Book Review| October 01 2009 Brothers among Nations: The Pursuit of Intercultural Alliances in Early America, 1580–1660 By Cynthia J. Van Zandt. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. $49.95 cloth.) Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (4): 758–759. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2009-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permi…
Native America: A History
List of Figures. List of Maps. Introduction. 1. Myths and Legends. The Beginning of the World. Rules for Living. Bears. 2. Worlds New and Worlds Old. The Fundamental Violence of Discovery. Paths of Destruction. Tsenacommacah. The Mohegans. New Worlds. 3. Living in the New World. Mourning Wars. Colonizing the Mohegans. The Word of God. Colonizing the Powhatans. Forging the Covenant Chain. Native Peoples and the French in a World of War. The Pueblo…
Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800
Erik R. Seeman, Death in the New World: Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1492–1800 (2010), 384 (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadephia, $45.00). Erik Seeman argues in Death in the New World that t
Michael Householder. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter
Journal Article Michael Householder. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter. Get access Michael Householder. Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter.Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing Company. 2011. Pp. x, 228. $89.95. Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg State University of New York, Geneseo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period
Book Review| October 01 2013 Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period. By Lopenzina, Drew. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012. xvi + 396 pp., illustrations, index. $95.00 cloth.) Michael Leroy Oberg Michael Leroy Oberg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 773–775. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
Jace Weaver. The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927
Jace Weaver argues that “[t]he Atlantic formed a multilane, two-way bridge across which traveled ideas and things that changed both Europeans and American indigenes” (p. 30). In The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927, however, Weaver focuses less upon these broad processes than upon the familiar story of native peoples who crossed the Atlantic: atypical figures including diplomats and emissaries, soldie…
Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery
“Slavery flourished in colonial New England,” writes Margaret Ellen Newell in Brethren by Nature, and “Native Americans formed a significant part of New England’s slave population” (3). Indian servants augmented the colonial workforce “in important ways.” They were the “dominant form of non-white labor” (5). Bound Indian laborers, who “likely numbered in the thousands” (14), performed a variety of tasks associated with “ironworks, fisheries, live…
Flesh Reborn: The Saint Lawrence Valley Mission Settlements through the Seventeenth Century
In Flesh Reborn, historian Jean-François Lozier focuses his attention on the indigenous mission communities that formed and developed in the Saint Lawrence River valley. Engaging at once a number of lines of historiographical inquiry and debate, Lozier writes that in the Saint Lawrence, “Indigenous populations did not simply withdraw or disperse before an advancing colonial frontier.” Rather, these Native American settlers “drew closer to Europea…
Tribes and Towns: What Historians Still Get Wrong about the Roanoke Ventures
The Theodor De Bry map of the coast of today's North Carolina has exerted an unfortunate influence over how historians and anthropologists have described and understood the indigenous Algonquian communities of the Outer Banks and the coast of today's North Carolina, and so how they have interpreted Sir Walter Ralegh's colonizing ventures. The map is the bedrock on which many scholars have erected their own interpretations of the indigenous politi…
Reply to Alaina E. Roberts
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No More Nations Within Nations: Indigenous Sovereignty after the End of Treaty-Making in 1871
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Reply to Julie L. Reed
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