The Creation of the British Atlantic World (Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801880394 ISBN 13: 9780801880391

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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."

(Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History)

"The popularity of Atlantic history is proven by a stream of publications in recent years, but few have attained the quality of this excellent collection."

(Journal of American History)

"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."

(Journal of World History)

"A fine collection."

(Christopher Hodson Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History)

"Beautifully set up... and provides tantalizing insights."

(Marie Donaghay International Journal of Maritime History)

"A valuable contribution to transatlantic studies."

(Sixteenth Century Journal)

"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)

"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)

Synopsis:

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0801880394
• ISBN 13: 9780801880391
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Mancke Elizabeth, Shammas Carole