The creation of the British Atlantic world
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The creation of the British Atlantic world
（Anglo-America in the transatlantic world）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
While scholars of traditional imperial history see the formation of the larger British Atlantic world as a consequence of competing European powers' efforts at nation-building, Atlantic historians see the transatlantic empire shaped more by the motives of a wide variety of subnational groups. Elizabeth Mancke and Carole Shammas have compiled a volume that reflects these different viewpoints concerning the transatlantic experience during Britain's rise to world dominance between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the book's opening chapters, contributors consider the effect of transatlantic emigration, discussing European and African migration and slave trade; the enslavement of Native American peoples; and the ways individuals adapted their national and religious identities in a world of expanding cultural influences.
The second section addresses the roles played by trade, religion, ethnicity, and class in linking the Atlantic borders, with essays examining how mariners circulated political and religious news along with trade goods; how British common law supplanted the diverse legal systems of the early colonies; and how Protestant leaders in the colonies challenged the theological assumptions of their European contemporaries. The chapters in the final section address the increasingly complicated legal relationships between the British sovereign and colonial charterholders; the simultaneous establishment of a British colonial government in East Florida and the Royal Gardens of Kew; the popularity of imperial landscape art in eighteenth-century Britain; and the British roots of Pennsylvania Quakers. The Creation of the British Atlantic World provides insight into the competing forces that forged the Atlantic world as well as the reciprocal relationships between the growing British Empire and the individuals, groups, and subnations within that empire.
Table of Contents
Introduction 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
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