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• Contributors include Daniel A. Baugh (Cornell), Alexander V. Campbell (independent scholar), Michael Dove (Western Ontario), Randy Dunn (Western Ontario), Michelle A. Hamilton (Guelph), Richard R. Johnson (Washington), Margaret M.R. Kellow (Western Ontario), Neil Kennedy (Brock), Kenneth A. Lockridge (Montana), Stacy L. Lorenz (Alberta), Sara Morrison (Western Ontario), Barbara C. Murison (Western Ontario), John M. Murrin, (Princeton), David J. Norton (Western Ontario), Jon W. Parmenter (Cornell), Nancy L. Rhoden (Western Ontario), and John Shy (Michigan).
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Ian K. Steele's pioneering work in imperial and early North American history was a pivotal contribution to the establishment of Atlantic history as a field. His study of a unified English - and later British - Atlantic challenged American exceptionalism and encouraged the current wave of interest in Atlantic studies. Inspired by the major themes in Steele's scholarship, the original essays in "English Atlantics Revisited" examine British Atlantic contexts and political economy, as well as maritime, military, Amerindian, and social history. The contributors offer challenging new findings and perspectives as they revisit the English Atlantics: chapters on specific personalities, regions, and topics reveal the extent of transatlantic, cross-cultural, and trans-national interactions. "English Atlantics Revisited" help assess the current state of Atlantic history.
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• v. 1. Black writers / edited by Sukhdev Sandhu ; consulting editor, David Dabydean
• v. 2. Debate on the abolition of the slave trade / edited by Peter Kitson
• v. 3. Debate on the emancipation of the slave trade / edited by Deborah Lee
• v. 4. Literary forms, verse / edited by Alan Richardson
• v. 5. Literary forms, drama / edited by Jeffrey Cox
• v. 6. Literary forms, fiction / edited by Srinivas Aravamudan
• v. 7. Medicine and the West Indian slave trade / edited by Alan Bewell
• v. 8. Theories of race / edited by Peter Kitson.

This facsimle edition brings together a corpus of work which reflects the major issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave. The Romantic period witnessed the beginnings of the sustained British imperial expansion that was to dominate its history, bringing with it a sometimes anxious awareness of other cultures and societies. This was also the period when criticism of the slave trade was at its most intense, finally leading to the formal abolition of the trade within the British colonies in 1807 and the emancipation of the slaves in the British colonies in 1833. Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, John Thelwell, and a host of other non-canonical writers - wrote against the slave trade and their writing inevitably engaged in representing the African other'.
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• List of Maps
• List of Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction: The What and Why of this Volume
• 2. British North America in the Empire: An Overview
• 3. 'Bound by Our Regal Office': Empire, Sovereignty, and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
• 4. Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism
• 5. 'Establishment' and 'Dissent' in British North America: Organizing Religion in the New World
• 6. Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1765
• 7. Colonial Identity and Revolutionary Loyalty: The Case of the West Indies
• 8. American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 1707-1783
• 9. The American Revolution (I): The Paradox of Atlantic Integration
• 10. The American Revolution (II): The Origin and Nature of Colonial Grievances
• 11. Epilogue: The United States in the British Empire
• Index.
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Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between "settlers", the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants. The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally and attempts to demonstrate that the metropolitan power was of more than secondary importance to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The central theme of this volume is the question: to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that they were part of an empire and that the empire in question was British? The contributors, some of the leading scholars in their respective fields, strive to answer this question in various social, political, religious, and historical contexts.
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• List of Maps
• List of Contributors
• Abbreviations
• 1. Introduction: The What and Why of this Volume
• 2. British North America in the Empire: An Overview
• 3. 'Bound by Our Regal Office': Empire, Sovereignty, and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century
• 4. Toleration and Empire: The Origins of American Religious Pluralism
• 5. 'Establishment' and 'Dissent' in British North America: Organizing Religion in the New World
• 6. Periphery as Center: Slavery, Identity, and the Commercial Press in the British Atlantic, 1704-1765
• 7. Colonial Identity and Revolutionary Loyalty: The Case of the West Indies
• 8. American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination, 1707-1783
• 9. The American Revolution (I): The Paradox of Atlantic Integration
• 10. The American Revolution (II): The Origin and Nature of Colonial Grievances
• 11. Epilogue: The United States in the British Empire
• Index.
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Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject in order to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. It has become common place to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between "settlers", the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants. The contributions to British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries acknowledge the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades and incorporate its insights. However, the volume advocates a pluralistic approach to the subject generally and attempts to demonstrate that the metropolitan power was of more than secondary importance to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The central theme of this volume is the question: to what extent did it make a difference to those living in the colonies that made up British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that they were part of an empire and that the empire in question was British? The contributors, some of the leading scholars in their respective fields, strive to answer this question in various social, political, religious, and historical contexts.
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Can we approach European expansion to the Americas and elsewhere without colonial triumphalism? A research strategy which automatically treats early establishments overseas as embryonic colonies produces predictable results: in retrospect, some were, some were not. The approach reflected in the essays collected here does not exclude an interest in colonialism as an enduring practice, but the focus of the volume is population mobility and stability. Post-medieval archaeology has much to contribute to our understanding of the gradual drift of ordinary people - the cast of thousands, anonymous or almost-forgotten behind the famous names of history. The main concern of the articles here is the post-medieval expansion of the English-speaking world to North America, particularly Newfoundland and the Chesapeake, but the volume includes perspectives on Ireland and New France also. While most attend to the movement of Europeans, interactions with Native peoples, using the Labrador Inuit as a case study, are not neglected. Peter E. Pope is University Research Professor and former Head of the Department of Archaeology at Memorial University in St John's, Newfoundland. Shannon Lewis-Simpson researches aspects of cultural identity and interaction in the Viking-Age North Atlantic. She lectures part-time at Memorial University. Contributors: Eliza Brandy, Mark Brisbane, Amanda Crompton, Bruno Fajal, Amelia Fay, David Gaimster, Mark Gardiner, Barry Gaulton, William Gilbert, Audrey Horning, Carter C. Hudgins, Silas Hurry, Evan Jones, Neil Kennedy, Eric Klingelhofer, Hannah E.C. Koon, Brad Loewen, Nicholas Luccketti, James Lyttleton, Tania Manuel Casimiro, Paula Marcoux, Natascha Mehler, Greg Mitchell, Sarah Newstead, Stephane Noel, Jeff Oliver, Steven E. Pendery, Peter E. Pope, Peter Ramsden, Lisa Rankin, Amy St John, Beverley Straube, Eric Tourigny, James A. Tuck, Giovanni Vitelli, .
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Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the interrelationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British Atlantic by examining migration patterns on both the macro and micro level. It also scrutinizes the roles played by trade, religion, ethnicity, and class in linking Atlantic borders and the increasingly complicated legal, intellectual and emotional relationship between the British sovereign and colonial charterholders. Contributors include Joyce E. Chaplin, John E. Crowley, David Barry Gaspar, April Lee Hatfield, James Horn, Ray A. Kea, Elizabeth Mancke, Philip D. Morgan, William M. Offutt, Robert Olwell, Carole Shammas, Wolfgang Splitter, Mark L. Thompson, Karin Wulf, Avihu Zakai.
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• Foreword Introduction: Sea Changes 1 The Conquest of Eden: Possession and Dominion in Early Virginia 2 Powhatans Abroad: Virginia Indians in England 3 John Smith Maps Virginia: Knowledge, Rhetoric, and Politics 4 The Politics of Pathos: Richard Frethorne's Letters Home 5 The Specter of Spain in John Smith's Colonial Writing 6 The White Othello: Turkey and Virginia in John Smith's True travels 7 England, Morocco, and Global Geopolitical Upheaval 8 Irish Colonies and the Americas 9 Hunger in Early Virginia: Indians and English Facing off Over Excess, Want, and Need 10 Between "Plain Wilderness" and "Goodly Corn Fields": Representing Land Use in Early Virginia 11 Settling with Slavery: Human Bondage in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World 12 "We all smoke here": Behn's The Widdow Ranter and the Invention of American Identity Conclusion: Jamestown and Its North Atlantic World.
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Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it. The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event among many in the long development of the North Atlantic world. Ireland, Spain, Morocco, West Africa, Turkey, and the Native federations of North America all played a role alongside the Virginia Company in London and English settlers on the ground. English proponents of empire responded as much to fears of Spanish ambitions, fantasies about discovering gold, and dreams of easily dominating the region's Natives as they did to the grim lessons of earlier, failed outposts in North America. Developments in trade and technology, in diplomatic relations and ideology, in agricultural practices and property relations were as crucial as the self-consciously combative adventurers who initially set sail for the Chesapeake. The collection begins by exploring the initial encounters between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan Indians and the relations of both these groups with London. It goes on to examine the international context that defined English colonialism in this period-relations with Spain, the Turks, North Africa, and Ireland. Finally, it turns to the ways both settlers and Natives were transformed over the course of the seventeenth century, considering conflicts and exchanges over food, property, slavery, and colonial identity. What results is a multifaceted view of the history of Jamestown up to the time of Bacon's Rebellion and its aftermath. The writings of Captain John Smith, the experience of Powhatans in London, the letters home of a disappointed indentured servant, the Moroccans, Turks, and Indians of the English stage, the ethnographic texts of early explorers, and many other phenomena all come into focus as examples of the envisioning of a nascent empire and the Atlantic world in which it found a hold.
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• Acknowledgements--
• 1. Introduction--
• 2. The moral philosophy of Tudor colonisation--
• 3. The moral philosophy of Jacobean colonisation--
• 4. Rhetoric - 'not the words, but the acts'--
• 5. Law and history--
• 6. The Machiavellian argument for colonial possession--
• 7. Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues of colonization: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the problems of just title, including the dispossession of native Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which, counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive colonial ideology.
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• Acknowledgements--
• 1. Introduction--
• 2. The moral philosophy of Tudor colonisation--
• 3. The moral philosophy of Jacobean colonisation--
• 4. Rhetoric - 'not the words, but the acts'--
• 5. Law and history--
• 6. The Machiavellian argument for colonial possession--
• 7. Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Humanism and America provides a major study of the impact of the Renaissance and Renaissance humanism upon the English colonization of America. The analysis is conducted through an interdisciplinary examination of a broad spectrum of writings on colonization, ranging from the works of Thomas More to those of the Virginia Company. Andrew Fitzmaurice shows that English expansion was profoundly neo-classical in inspiration, and he excavates the distinctively humanist tradition that informed some central issues of colonization: the motivations of wealth and profit, honour and glory; the nature of and possibilities for liberty; and the problems of just title, including the dispossession of native Americans. Dr Fitzmaurice presents a colonial tradition which, counter to received wisdom, is often hostile to profit, nervous of dispossession and desirous of liberty. Only in the final chapters does he chart the rise of an aggressive, acquisitive and possessive colonial ideology.
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• Introduction--
• 1. The challenges of English settlement in the Leewards--
• 2. Irish, Scots, and English--
• 3. Managing religious diversity--
• 4. Sex, sexuality, and social control--
• 5. Political culture, cooperation, and conflict-- Conclusion.
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Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670-1776 is the first study of the history of the federated colony of the Leeward Islands - Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St Kitts - that covers all four islands in the period from their independence from Barbados in 1670 up to the outbreak of the American Revolution, which reshaped the Caribbean. Natalie A. Zacek emphasizes the extent to which the planters of these islands attempted to establish recognizably English societies in tropical islands based on plantation agriculture and African slavery. By examining conflicts relating to ethnicity and religion, controversies regarding sex and social order, and a series of virulent battles over the limits of local and imperial authority, this book depicts these West Indian colonists as skilled improvisers who adapted to an unfamiliar environment, and as individuals as committed as other American colonists to the norms and values of English society, politics, and culture.
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• 1. Slavery and freedom in the early modern world--
• 2. The English, Dutch, and Transoceanic migration--
• 3. Europeans and African slavery in the Americas--
• 4. Gender and slavery in the Early Modern Atlantic world--
• 5. Productivity in the slave trade--
• 6. Africa and Europe in the Early Modern era--
• 7. The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade--
• 8. The English plantation: Americas in comparative perspective--
• 9. Ethnicity in the Early Modern Atlantic world--
• 10. Europe and the Atlantic slave system.
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Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? In seeking to provide new answers to this question, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas examines the development of the English Atlantic slave system between 1650 and 1800. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic World. Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, David Eltis provides a fresh interpretation of this difficult historical problem.
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