This essay is a contextual analysis of the History of New Hampshire (1784–1792) by Jeremy Belknap, founder of the Massachusetts Historical Society. I situate Belknap’s historical and institutional achievements within the framework of settler colonialism studies to argue that Belknap used his profound knowledge of previous New England historiography to write a settler history of American colonization—a narrative of expansionist settlement over indigenous land sustained by cultural, political, racial and social norms at the root of its enduring success. Belknap’s settler history effectively negated both British and indigenous sovereignty and shifted the historical focus prevalent in his time away from the empire and onto the specific, and in his mind, unique, story of the violent formation of white, self-governing and autonomous expansionist settler societies that he believed were the real locus of American identity.

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杰里米·贝尔克纳普 (Jeremy Belknap) 的新罕布什尔州历史背景：定居者殖民主义和新英格兰史学

本文是马萨诸塞州历史学会创始人杰里米·贝尔克纳普 (Jeremy Belknap) 对新罕布什尔州历史 (1784-1792) 的背景分析。我将贝尔克纳普的历史和制度成就置于定居者殖民主义研究的框架内，以论证贝尔克纳普利用他对先前新英格兰史学的渊博知识来撰写美国殖民的定居者历史——一种关于文化、政治、种族和社会规范是其持久成功的根源。贝尔克纳普的定居者历史有效地否定了英国和土著的主权，并将他那个时代盛行的历史焦点从帝国转移到特定的、在他看来是独特的白人暴力形成故事，