The world of colonial America : an Atlantic handbook /
edited by Ignacio Gallup-Diaz.
- [Enhanced Credo edition]
- 1 online resource (30 entries) : 21 images ; digital files.
- Routledge worlds .
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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 Caņizares-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.
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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.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9781786843883
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.