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Book SynopsisThis volume is an ideal introduction to the complex and fascinating history of colonies too often neglected in standard textbook accounts.
Trade ReviewOverall this is a fine book: balanced, comprehensive, and well written... The use of texts like Hubs of Empire is critical to the recuperation of this historical experience shared alike by what became the United States and its Caribbean neighbors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- Robert Goddard Southern Spaces Mulcahy's theoretical approach is sure to foster much debate in both the classroom and the wider academy... Recommended. Choice Mulcahy's theoretical approach is sure to foster much debate in both the classroom and the wider academy... Recommended. Choice [Mulcahy] writes with clear, thoughtful and engaging prose. This book would be an ideal choice for undergraduate courses on the early United States or on the Atlantic World. Journal of Historical Geography ... Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Low country and British Caribbean is an ideal introduction to the main themes of the Greater Caribbean for undergraduate classrooms and for graduate students seeking a snappy and thought-provoking synthesis. Journal of Southern History Written with clarity and vigor and will be key to changing perceptions in the teaching of early American history. Journal of American History ... Mulcahy's survey provides a good argument for thinking about the way we delineate historical spaces and the way geography and environment shaped the social and economic worlds of the people who came to inhabit them... Reviews In American History
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Prologue: Rethinking Regions in Colonial British America
1. Plundering and Planting the Greater Caribbean
2. The Sweet Negotiation of Sugar
3. Jamaica
4. "Carolina in ye West Indies"
5. "In Miserable Slavery"
6. Creole Societies
7. Trade, Politics, and War in the Eighteenth Century
Epilogue: The Political Crisis of the 1760s
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index
