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Book SynopsisAnglicizing America revisits the theory of Anglicization and reconsiders its application to the lives and histories of the Atlantic world, from Britain to the Caribbean to the western wildernesses, at key moments before, during, and after the American Revolution.
Trade Review"The volume does a masterful job at pulling together the various threads on Anglicization and extending it from the midcolonial period through the early republic." * Ned Landsman, author of
Crossroads of Empire *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
—Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. Silverman
PART I. ANGLICIZATION
Chapter 1. England and Colonial America: A Novel Theory of the American Revolution
—John M. Murrin
Chapter 2. A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Achievement of John M. Murrin
—Andrew Shankman
PART II. EMPIRE
Chapter 3. "In Great Slavery and Bondage": White Labor and the Development of Plantation Slavery in British America
—Simon P. Newman
Chapter 4. Anglicizing the League: The Writing of Cadwallader Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations
—William Howard Carter
Chapter 5. A Medieval Response to a Wilderness Need: Anglicizing Warfare in Colonial America
—Geoffrey Plank
PART III. REVOLUTION
Chapter 6. Anglicanism, Dissent, and Toleration in Eighteenth-Century British Colonies
—Nancy L. Rhoden
Chapter 7. Anglicization Against the Empire: Revolutionary Ideas and Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts
—Jeremy A. Stern
PART IV. REPUBLIC
Chapter 8. Racial Walls: Race and the Emergence of American White Nationalism
—David J. Silverman
Chapter 9. De-Anglicization: The Jeffersonian Attack on an American Naval Establishment
—Denver Brunsman
Chapter 10. Anglicization and the American Taxpayer, c. 1763-1815
—Anthony M. Joseph
Conclusion. Anglicization Reconsidered
—Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
