{"product_id":"early-north-america-in-global-perspective-9780415808842","title":"Early North America in Global Perspective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly North American history is a field in flux. In the last thirty years, the field of Atlantic History has transformed scholarly studies of colonial America, bringing to light the many connections linking the Americas to Africa and Europe. Recently, though, historians have begun to question the utility of the Atlantic framework. Some suggest that it overlooks global phenomena, while others argue for a hemispheric or continental perspective on North Americaâs early history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarly North America in Global Perspective collects the most interesting and innovative scholarly approaches to these questions. Anchored by a robust introduction that guides the reader through the various conceptual arguments, the fourteen essays gathered here introduce students to some of the finest historians of early America working in expansive and stimulating ways. These essays capture the complexity of North Americaâs past and are in tune with the global influences that shape its present. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis masterful collection strikes the perfect balance between synthesis and innovation. Early North America emerges here as a composite of global maritime currents, intersecting imperial projects, ecological transformations, inventive cultural practice, and startling violence, in rich essays that offer wide-ranging introductions and identify new challenges for the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Lauren Benton, author of \u003ci\u003eA Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn all-star roster of scholars; a stellar collection of essays; an editorial hand that deftly sketches contexts, suggests connections, and poses probing questions: these ingredients make \u003ci\u003eEarly North America in Global Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e an important--indeed, vital--contribution to the ongoing conversations about Early America, the Atlantic World, and the peoples, places, and oceans beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James H. Merrell, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlobalization has a history and North America has a part in that history. That part was especially pronounced in the early modern period as this stimulating collection of essays on early North American history and world history attests. Accompanied by a robust and helpful introduction, this collection is a first-rate guide to a topic of enormous historical and contemporary importance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Trevor Burnard, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge History of Slavery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides potential students of the Atlantic World with a sampling of the delights they may encounter there. Essays by revered authors such as David Brion Davis and J.H. Elliott are juxtaposed with innovative chapters by such younger scholars as Michael Jarvis and Ashli White, and they range from investigations into migration and hybridization to ecology and revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Nicholas Canny, editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the geographic reach and temporal breadth of this volume, we see how the perspectives of the new global history have reshaped our understanding of \"colonial America.\" In its pages, Africans, Indians, and Europeans who cross borders to trade, work, marry, sail, explore, or destroy take their places as historical actors whose experiences illuminate the transformation of the early modern world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—S. Max Edelson, author of \u003ci\u003ePlantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Contexts\u003c\/strong\u003e 1. American History Begins: Indian Peoples before the Advent of Europeans \u003cem\u003eR. David Edmunds, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury\u003c\/em\u003e 2. How Africans Became Integral to New World History \u003cem\u003eDavid Brion Davis\u003c\/em\u003e 3. The Ecological Atlantic \u003cem\u003eJ.R. McNeill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Connections\u003c\/strong\u003e 4. Beyond the Atlantic: English Globetrotters and Transoceanic Connections \u003cem\u003eAlison Games\u003c\/em\u003e 5. The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia \u003cem\u003eJ.H. Elliott \u003c\/em\u003e6. A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the “Land of the Tejas” \u003cem\u003eJuliana Barr\u003c\/em\u003e 7. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America\u003cem\u003e Susan Juster \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Transformations \u003c\/strong\u003e8. The Alluring Pacific Ocean \u003cem\u003ePaul W. Mapp\u003c\/em\u003e 9. Maritime Masters and Seafaring Slaves in Bermuda, 1680-1783 \u003cem\u003eMichael J. Jarvis \u003c\/em\u003e10. Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisana \u003cem\u003eKathleen DuVal\u003c\/em\u003e 11. The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands \u003cem\u003ePekka Hämäläinen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Tumult\u003c\/strong\u003e 12. The First Atlantic Crisis: The American Revolution \u003cem\u003eDavid Armitage\u003c\/em\u003e 13. Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Emigré Diasporas \u003cem\u003eMaya Jasanoff\u003c\/em\u003e 14. The Contagion of Rebellion \u003cem\u003eAshli White \u003c\/em\u003ePermission Acknowledgements Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577331683671,"sku":"9780415808842","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-north-america-in-global-perspective-9780415808842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}