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Review: A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada, by Cole Harris

Review: A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada, by Cole Harris past” that served the varied interests of predominantly white Protestant businessmen, politicians, and colonial officials. In the chapters on the Midwest and Southern California, Moran shows how white Protestants who were relative newcomers to these western states turned to their regions’ Catholic past to narrate an alternative to founding histories centered on Puritan New England. The new Catholic founding stories swept away the Black Legend as biographies and commemorations dedicated to missionaries like Marquette and Junı´pero Serra stressed their proto-Protestant qualities and their exemplary “civilizing” work. In both regions, boosters of Jesuits like Marquette and Spanish missions shored up a common whiteness that bound European-descended people together against Native Americans, although the particular facets of this racial work in the Midwest and California were quite distinct. Moran’s nuanced anal- ysis shows how engaging with this useable past created space for both critiquing and perpetuating settler colonialism, a point that gets developed most fully in the Southern California chapters. The last two chapters offer a somewhat different argument in relation to the Philippines and to the debates about the powerful and controversial missionary friars. While some colonial officials favored a Protestant-style religious freedom and critiqued thesefriarsascorrupt anddomineering,othersromanticizedthe friars and suggested http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pacific Historical Review University of California Press

Review: A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada, by Cole Harris

Hall, Ryan
Pacific Historical Review , Volume 90 (2): 3 – May 1, 2021
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10.1525/phr.2021.90.2.275
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past” that served the varied interests of predominantly white Protestant businessmen, politicians, and colonial officials. In the chapters on the Midwest and Southern California, Moran shows how white Protestants who were relative newcomers to these western states turned to their regions’ Catholic past to narrate an alternative to founding histories centered on Puritan New England. The new Catholic founding stories swept away the Black Legend as biographies and commemorations dedicated to missionaries like Marquette and Junı´pero Serra stressed their proto-Protestant qualities and their exemplary “civilizing” work. In both regions, boosters of Jesuits like Marquette and Spanish missions shored up a common whiteness that bound European-descended people together against Native Americans, although the particular facets of this racial work in the Midwest and California were quite distinct. Moran’s nuanced anal- ysis shows how engaging with this useable past created space for both critiquing and perpetuating settler colonialism, a point that gets developed most fully in the Southern California chapters. The last two chapters offer a somewhat different argument in relation to the Philippines and to the debates about the powerful and controversial missionary friars. While some colonial officials favored a Protestant-style religious freedom and critiqued thesefriarsascorrupt anddomineering,othersromanticizedthe friars and suggested

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Published: May 1, 2021

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