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

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge worldsPublisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2017Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (30 entries) : 21 images ; digital filesContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786843883
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 973.2 23
LOC classification:
  • E188 .W66 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : Atlantic perspectives -- Part I. Spanish empire; Spanish influences. From monarchy to empire : ideologies, institutions, and the limits of Spanish imperial sovereignty, 1492-1700 / Alexander Ponsen: "The oversight of King Henry VI": imperial envy and the making of British America / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Bradley J. Dixon; Indo-Hispano borderlands in the Americas : entanglements, north and south / Bianca Brigidi and James F. Brooks -- Part II. Unfree labor. Labor, empire, and the state : the English imperial experience in the seventeenth century / Abigail L. Swingen; The early English Caribbean : conflict, the census, and control / Jenny Shaw; The development of slavery in the British Americas / Justin Roberts -- Part III. British colonial developments and the fates of indigenous polities. Spiritual giants, worldly empires : indigenous peoples and New England to the 1680s / Neal Salisbury: "Vast and furious": understanding an Atlantic New England / Wendy Warren; The middle colonies: region, restoration, and imperial integration / Ned C. Landsman; His own, their own: settler colonialism, native peoples, and imperial balances of power in eastern North America, 1660-1715 / Daniel K. Richter; The Chesapeake: putting Maryland on the map / Kathleen M. Brown; Protestantism as ideology in the British Atlantic world / Carla Gardina Pestana; Was knowledge power? : science in the British Atlantic / Joyce E. Chaplin --
Part IV. Competition and imperial frontiers. Defying mercantilism: Dutch interimperial trade in the Atlantic world / Willem Klooster: Atlantic, western, and continental early America / Paul W. Mapp; Native-European interactions in North America and the trade in furs / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis; Dismantling the dream of "France's Peru": Indian and African influence on the development of early colonial Louisiana / Elizabeth Ellis -- Part V. Revolutions. How to lose an empire: British misperceptions of the sinews of the transatlantic system / Andrew Shankman and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz: The revolutionary black Atlantic: from royalists to revolutionaries / Jane Landers.
Abstract: 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.
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Ebook Ebook NMC Library Credo Reference Online E188 .W66 2017 EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available online - NMC Login required 518698

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Atlantic perspectives -- Part I. Spanish empire; Spanish influences. From monarchy to empire : ideologies, institutions, and the limits of Spanish imperial sovereignty, 1492-1700 / Alexander Ponsen: "The oversight of King Henry VI": imperial envy and the making of British America / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Bradley J. Dixon; Indo-Hispano borderlands in the Americas : entanglements, north and south / Bianca Brigidi and James F. Brooks -- Part II. Unfree labor. Labor, empire, and the state : the English imperial experience in the seventeenth century / Abigail L. Swingen; The early English Caribbean : conflict, the census, and control / Jenny Shaw; The development of slavery in the British Americas / Justin Roberts -- Part III. British colonial developments and the fates of indigenous polities. Spiritual giants, worldly empires : indigenous peoples and New England to the 1680s / Neal Salisbury: "Vast and furious": understanding an Atlantic New England / Wendy Warren; The middle colonies: region, restoration, and imperial integration / Ned C. Landsman; His own, their own: settler colonialism, native peoples, and imperial balances of power in eastern North America, 1660-1715 / Daniel K. Richter; The Chesapeake: putting Maryland on the map / Kathleen M. Brown; Protestantism as ideology in the British Atlantic world / Carla Gardina Pestana; Was knowledge power? : science in the British Atlantic / Joyce E. Chaplin --

Part IV. Competition and imperial frontiers. Defying mercantilism: Dutch interimperial trade in the Atlantic world / Willem Klooster: Atlantic, western, and continental early America / Paul W. Mapp; Native-European interactions in North America and the trade in furs / Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis; Dismantling the dream of "France's Peru": Indian and African influence on the development of early colonial Louisiana / Elizabeth Ellis -- Part V. Revolutions. How to lose an empire: British misperceptions of the sinews of the transatlantic system / Andrew Shankman and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz: The revolutionary black Atlantic: from royalists to revolutionaries / Jane Landers.

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.

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