DescriptionThis dissertation explores through what means, and with what effects on their societies, Native Americans in colonial New England were incorporated into the capitalistic Modern World-System. To do so, it draws from a wide range of primary sources, including a database of over 600 “Indian Deeds” collected from throughout New England. To these raw materials, the dissertation applies French neo-Marxist structuralist theories and Wallersteinian and post-Wallersteinian World-System theories. One particular original contribution is an hypothesis applying the theories of articulation-of-modes-of-production and social reproduction for how Indians were drawn into the fur trade and lost many of their lands to whites as a consequence. Also investigated herein is the step-by-step subsumption of the lives of the Indians under the colonial governmental structures and the exploitation of Indians, once separated from their means of production, as “servants” by English colonists.