The world of colonial America : an Atlantic handbook / edited by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio, 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the communities, cultures, and colonies that comprised colonial America, with a focus on the processes through which communities were created, destroyed, and recreated that were at the heart of the Atlantic experience. With contributions written by leading scholars from a variety of viewpoints, the book explores key topics such as, The Spanish, French, and Dutch Atlantic empires, The role of the indigenous people, as imperial allies, trade partners, and opponents of expansion, Puritanism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and the role of religion in colonization, The importance of slavery in the development of the colonial economies, The evolution of core areas, and their relationship to frontier zones, The emergence of the English imperial state as a hegemonic world power after 1688, Regional developments in colonial North America. Bringing together leading scholars in the field to explain the latest research on Colonial America and its place in the Atlantic World, this is an important reference for all advanced students, researchers, and professionals working in the field of early American history or the age of empires. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Spanish Empire; Spanish Influences 15

1 From Monarchy to Empire: Ideologies, Institutions, and the Limits of Spanish Imperial Sovereignty, 1492-1700 / Alexander Ponsen Ponsen, Alexander 17

2 "The Oversight of King Henry VII": Imperial Envy and the Making of British America / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge, Bradley J. Dixon Dixon, Bradley J. 39

3 Indo-Hispano Borderlands in the Americas: Entanglements, North and South / Bianca Brigidi Brigidi, Bianca, James F. Brooks Brooks, James F. 59

Part II Unfree Labor 83

4 Labor, Empire, and the State: The English Imperial Experience in the Seventeenth Century / Abigail L. Swingen Swingen, Abigail L. 85

5 The Early English Caribbean: Conflict, the Census, and Control / Jenny Shaw Shaw, Jenny 105

6 The Development of Slavery in the British Americas / Justin Roberts Roberts, Justin 123

Part III British Colonial Developments and the Fates of Indigenous Polities 151

7 Spiritual Giants, Worldly Empires: Indigenous Peoples and New England to the 1680s / Neal Salisbury Salisbury, Neal 153

8 "Vast and Furious": Understanding an Atlantic New England / Wendy Warren Warren, Wendy 171

9 The Middle Colonies: Region, Restoration, and Imperial Integration / Ned C. Landsman Landsman, Ned C. 189

10 His Own, Their Own: Settler Colonialism, Native Peoples, and Imperial Balances of Power in Eastern North America, 1660-1715 / Daniel K. Richter Richter, Daniel K. 209

11 The Chesapeake: Putting Maryland on the Map / Kathleen M. Brown Brown, Kathleen M. 235

12 Protestantism as ideology in the British Atlantic World / Carla Gardina Pestana Pestana, Carla Gardina 263

13 Was Knowledge Power? Science in the British Atlantic / Joyce E. Chaplin Chaplin, Joyce E. 281

Part IV Competition and Imperial Frontiers 301

14 Defying Mercantilism: Dutch Interimperial Trade in the Atlantic World / Willem Klooster Klooster, Willem 303

15 Atlantic, Western, and Continental Early America / Paul W. Mapp Mapp, Paul W. 321

16 Native-European Interactions in North America and the Trade in Furs / Ann M. Carlos Carlos, Ann M., Frank D. Lewis Lewis, Frank D. 339

17 Dismantling the Dream of "France's Peru": Indian and African Influence on the Development of Early Colonial Louisiana / Elizabeth Ellis Ellis, Elizabeth 355

Part V Revolutions 373

18 How to Lose an Empire: British Misperceptions of the Sinews of the Transatlantic System / Andrew Shankman Shankman, Andrew, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio 375

19 The Revolutionary Black Atlantic: From Royalists to Revolutionaries / Jane Landers Landers, Jane 393.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: World of colonial America.

ISBN:

9781317662136

131766213X

9781315767000

1315767007

OCLC:

966668149

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