A Bounded Land: Reflections on Settler Colonialism in Canada

A close look at how society was reorganized, for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike, when Europeans resettled in Canada. Canada is a country of bounded spaces—a nation situated between rock and cold to the north and a political border to the south. In A Bounded Land, Cole Harris seeks answers to a sweeping question: How was society reorganized, for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike, when Europeans resettled this distinctive land?

Through a series of vignettes that focus on p...