British Forts and Their Communities: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
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CONTENTS: Introduction: British forts and their communities / Zachary J.M. Beier and Christopher R. DeCorse -- British forts in northern New York State / David R. Starbuck -- Maintaining the military: blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac (Michigan) / Amy Roache-Fedchenko -- At the margins of empire: British colonial policy and Fort Haldimand, Carleton Island, New York (1778-1784) / Douglas J. Pippin -- The fort and the village: landscape and identity in the colonial period of Fort Vancouver / Douglas C. Wilson -- Tracing the fur trade: British fort sites along the Columbia River / Robert J. Cromwell -- Everyday entanglements: labor and diversity at the Cabrits Garrison, Dominica / Zachary J.M. Beier -- Enslaved Africans and the British military at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts, West Indies / Gerald F. Schroedl -- Landlords and strangers: British forts and their communities in West Africa / Christopher R. DeCorse -- Supporting the fort: James Island, exchange, and entanglement in Atlantic Gambia / Liza Gijanto -- People at the gates: Fort WIllshire and cultural transformation in the Eastern Cape, South Africa / Floredeliz T. Bugarin.