British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Author(s)

• Foster, Stephen

Bibliographic Information

British North America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

edited by Stephen Foster

（The Oxford history of the British Empire, Companion series）

Oxford University Press, 2013

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

• 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

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB14188093
• ISBN:
  • 9780199206124
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 365 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 970.02
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1660-1775
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA35962009