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Book SynopsisThompson, Karin Wulf, Avihu Zakai.
Trade ReviewA fine collection. -- Christopher Hodson Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 2005 Beautifully set up... and provides tantalizing insights. -- Marie Donaghay International Journal of Maritime History 2006 The contributors and editors have done us a great service by bringing together in one volume some of the more creative and novel approaches to Atlantic history. -- Edward E. Andrews Journal of World History 2006 This is a seminal collection that over the years will provide both inspiration and guidance to those striving to understand the 'how' and 'why' of imperialism and imperial historiography. -- B.R. Burg Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 2006 A valuable contribution to transatlantic studies. -- Joseph Chi Sixteenth Century Journal 2007 This book - written for the most part by Greene's former students - is both a tribute to and recognition of Greene's ambiguous legacy. -- Owen Stanwood Americas 2007 A collection of superb essays. -- Peter A. Coclanis New West Indian Guide This volume offers what readers have come to expect from publishing houses such as Johns Hopkins University Press, namely solid and reliable scholarship... a valuable contribution. -- Klaus H. Schmidt Amerikastudien / American Studies 2006
Table of ContentsIntroduction Carole Shammas
PART I: Transatlantic Subjects
Chapter 1. Settlers and Slaves: European and African Migrations to Early Modern British America
Chapter 2. Enslavement of Indians in Early America: Captivity without the Narrative
Chapter 3. "The Predicament of Ubi": Locating Authority and National Identity in the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic
Chapter 4. "Subjects to the King of Portugal": Captivity and Repatriation in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antigua, 1724)
Chapter 5. From Catholicism to Moravian Pietism: The World of Marotta/Magdalena, a Woman of Popo and St. Thomas
PART II: Transatlantic Connections
Chapter 6. Mariners, Merchants, and Colonists in Seventeenth-Century English America
Chpater 7. The Atlantic Rules: The Legalistic Turn in Colonial British America
Chapter 8. Jonathan Edwards, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of Protestant Tradition in America
Chapter 9. Order, Ordination, Subordination: German Lutheran Missionaries in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania
PART II: Imperial Visions and Transatlantic Revisions
Chapter 10. Chartered Enterprises and the Evolution of the British Atlantic World
Chapter 11. Seeds of Empire: Florida, Kew, and the British Imperial Meridian in the 176os
Chapter 12. A Visual Empire: Seeing the British Atlantic World from a Global British Perspective
Chapter 13. "Of the Old Stock": Quakerism and Transatlantic Genealogies in Colonial British America
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
