New Work Forum: On Food and Populations in Cevasco's Violent Appetites

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Image courtesy of wikimedia commons. By Kate Luce Mulry A well-fed and numerous colonial populace enhanced imperialists’ military power and colonizers’ claims to sovereignty over the homelands of Indigenous peoples in northeastern North America during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Not only did colonizers aim to remove Native communities and replace them with their own, but they also sought to increase their populations to fend off the incursions of rival empires. They required nu...

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