This dissertation examines Anglo-Indian relations in seventeenth-century Maine. Previous studies have stressed the failure of the English to understand or get along with the Indians of Maine, without fully examining the background of both sides. This dissertation aims to correct misperceptions of and generalizations about the nature of both native and English societies in early Maine. By using the ethnohistorical perspective, it explores the nature of Anglo-Abenaki interactions and why this relationship broke down.;The focus of Anglo-Indian interaction in early Maine was the fur trade and the land trade. During the seventeenth century, both sides became increasingly dependent upon trade, despite occasional outbreaks of violence. In the 1660s and 1670s, an influx of English settlers and traders increased competition for furs and land, and heightened tensions between cultures. The English growth was particularly rapid in the Sagadahoc region (the area from the Kennebec River to Pemaquid), the center of the fur trade and land trade.;The heightened tensions between the English and the Indians was one of several factors which led to the outbreak of King Philip's War in Maine. While past scholars have correctly identified the bias of English law against the Indians as a cause of war, this prejudice was only one of many factors which led to fighting. While the residents of Maine contributed to the failure of inter-cultural relations, many outside influences contributed to the outbreak of war in 1675. In particular, events and decisions made in Massachusetts greatly influenced affairs in Maine.;King Philip's War marks a crucial turning point in Maine history. The fierce war dragged on from 1675 to 1678, killing and displacing a large percentage of the English and native population of the region. Efforts to rebuild the extensive war damages proved short-lived for the suspicions and hatreds created by King Philip's War led to the outbreak of King William's War in 1688. With the outbreak of King William's War, alliance lines are set and the input of local residents loses importance as for the next sixty years Maine would serve as a theater where English, French, and American players acted out their imperial designs.

American diplomatic historians are most familiar with trusteeship in the context of the United Nations Trusteeship System and, consequently, associate it with international supervision of colonies and the dismantling of the western empires. This dissertation is an analysis of trusteeship in a broader chronological and conceptual framework. Far from being a new concept developed during the Second World War as a repudiation of imperialism, trusteeship was a centuries-old concept and a euphemism for "enlightened" imperialism.;Simply stated, trusteeship was the conviction that advanced states must control or supervise peoples deemed too immature or incompetent to manage their own affairs and property. A coincidence of the best interests of the "backward" peoples themselves, the controlling power, and the world at large--a coincidence which this study dubs the "triple mandate"--demanded that "trustee" states control incompetent peoples and rule them for the benefit of all concerned parties.;This study reconstructs the worldview that made trusteeship over "backward" nations seem legitimate and necessary. It then explores the influence of trusteeship and the forms it took in American policy toward the "Third World.".;Individual chapters examine the interaction between trusteeship and American policy in a diversity of geographic regions and contexts, especially as revealed in the thought and policies of a few selected statesmen. The chapters are case studies of American policy toward the Philippine Islands, Cuba and the Caribbean, and China, and American involvement in the origins of the League of Nations Mandates System.;A study of trusteeship reveals an American "imperial" tradition and sheds light on its character. Trusteeship was clearly imperialistic, since it was a systematic denial of self-determination to "backward" peoples. But because it renounced the stereotypical "old-style" imperialism and ostensibly promoted the best interests of subject peoples, American policymakers claimed that, in the context of its times, trusteeship was actually "anti-imperialistic." A study of trusteeship thus allows historians to better understand and evaluate American imperialism.

Scary entertainment is an oft maligned genre of popular culture. It is, however, ubiquitous in modem society with television shows, movies, and countless books all dealing with monsters and other horrors. Modem scary entertainment began to take shape during the late nineteenth century and proliferated in the earlier twentieth with the rise of pulp magazines, radio shows, and motion pictures. Through a study of short stories, films and other primary sources, this dissertation explores how scary entertainment was shaped by political and social discourses of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This dissertation argues that far from dealing with timeless fears of death and the unknown, scary entertainment reveals how white, middle class Americans viewed their society. Horror supplied the perfect forms for discussions of the changing understandings of what it meant to be human in the modem world. This study will explore how white Americans sought to reconcile older ideas of self as mind and soul with newer ideas of self as brain and psychological constructs, struggled with Darwinian Theory that placed humans closer to animals, tried to maintain a societal moral order in the face of cold science, and sought to maintain racial superiority in a world they saw increasingly contaminated with other races. Horror narratives allowed white Americans to vindicate their world view by either restoring the proper balance to society or damning it to the very forces they feared.

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