Description
Book SynopsisThe entire series, "Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World,engages the major organizing themes of the subject through a collection of high-level, debate-inspiring essays, inviting readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Atlantic experience shaped both American societies and the Atlantic world itself.
Trade ReviewVery engaging collection of twelve original essays. -- Neil Kennedy Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 2006 A helpful introduction. -- Leonard J. Sadosky North Carolina Historical Review 2007 An impressive collection of accessible essays from twelve historians. -- Marcia Schmidt Blaine Journal of World History 2007 The editors here are to be applauded for coping so admirably with the challenge of creating a coherent volume out of such a broad range of topics. -- Sarah M. S. Pearsall Journal of British Studies 2007 A coherent dialogue among scholars who examined various fragments of the empire in their specific permutations. -- Linda Sturtz Journal of Southern History 2007
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I: Environment and Identity
1. The Nature of Slavery: Environmental Disorder and Slave Agency in Colonial South Carolina
2. "For Want of a Social Set": Networks and Social Interaction in the Lower Cape Fear Region of North Carolina, 1725-1775
3. "Almost an Englishman": Eighteenth-Century Anglo-African Identities
4. Conservation, Class, and Controversy in Early America
Part II: Exchange and Identity
5. Beyond Declension: Economic Adaptation and the Pursuit of Export Markets in the Massachusetts Bay Region, 1630-1700
6. Paternalism and Profits: Planters and Overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825
7. "The Fewnesse of Handicraftsmen": Artisan Adaptation and Innovation in the Colonial Chesapeake
8. The Other "Susquahannah Traders": Women and Exchange on the Pennsylvania Frontier
Part III: Politics and Identity
9. A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke
10. Enjoying and Defending Charter Privileges: Corporate Status and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island
11. Native Americans, the Plan of 1764, and a British Empire That Never Was
12. Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
