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Contested Boundaries eBook Series

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  • Borderland Narratives

    Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850

    Edited by Andrew K. Frank, A. Glenn Crothers ...
    Series series Contested Boundaries
    Broadening the idea of "borderlands" beyond its traditional geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early America. It extends the concept to regions not typically seen as borderlands and demonstrates how the term has been used in recent years to describe unstable spaces where people, cultures, and viewpoints ... Read more

    R335,67

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  • Native Nations

    A Millennium in North America: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History

    by Kathleen DuVal ...
    WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYWINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZEWinner of the Bancroft Prize 2025Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had be... ... Read more

    R261,50

  • Indigenous Continent

    The Epic Contest for North America

    by Pekka Hämäläinen ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus ReviewsLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book at hand.” —David Treuer, The New Yorker“[T]he single best book I have ever read on ... Read more

    R319,57

  • Pox Americana

    The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

    by Elizabeth A. Fenn ...
    The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North ... Read more

    R214,12

  • American Republics

    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

    R290,59

  • Colonial America

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Taylor ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free land." Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial ... Read more

    R129,82

  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

    R227,34

  • Stealing America

    The Hidden Story of Indigenous Slavery in U.S. History

    by Linford D. Fisher ...
    **Longlisted for the 2026 Cundill History Prize“An indispensable book, as intellectually provocative as it is emotionally wrenching.”—Greg Grandin, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The End of the Myth**Although the first enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown in 1619, European slavery in America began more than a century before. In a work distinguished not only by its original research but by ... Read more

    R580,97

  • New Worlds for All

    Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Series series The American Moment
    The interactions between Indians and Europeans changed America—and both cultures.Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New ... Read more

    R502,88

  • They Stole our World: How Native Americans were Treated from Early Colonial Times Onward

    History and Historical Fiction, #22

    by Jason Wallace ...
    Series Book 22 - History and Historical Fiction
    From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions to society have been monumental and immeasurable, but their rewards have been few and almost ... Read more

    R99,55 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Firsting and Lasting

    Writing Indians out of Existence in New England

    by Jean M. O’Brien ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
    Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in ... Read more

    R382,25

  • The Chosen and The Damned

    Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States

    by David J. Silverman ...
    A sweeping chronicle placing race at the center of Native American U.S. history, from the award-winning author of This Land Is Their Land.When the colonial era began, Europeans did not consider themselves as “Whites,” and Native Americans did not think of themselves as “Indians.” Yet as a genocidal struggle for America unfolded over the course of generations, all that changed. Euro-Americans ... Read more

    R409,27