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Nancy Shoemaker

Professor

 

Office: Wood Hall, Room 227
Phone: (860) 486-5926
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:nancy.shoemaker@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

American Indian History

Current Research Interests

New England Indians in the New England whaling industry; Americans in nineteenth-century Fiji

 
Selected Publications

"Whale Meat in American History." Environmental History 10 (April 2005): 269-294.

A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. New York: Oxford University Press, in press, forthcoming 2004.

Editor, Clearing a Path: Theorizing the Past in Native American Studies. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Editor, Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History: American Indians (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001)

American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999).

"An Alliance Between Men: Gender Metaphors in 18th-Century American Indian Diplomacy East of the Mississippi," Ethnohistory 46 (Spring 1999), 239-263.

"How Indians Got to Be Red," The American Historical Review 102 (June 1997), 624-644.

Editor, Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (NY: Routledge, 1995), including "Kateri Tekakwitha's Tortuous Path to Sainthood," 49-71.

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