The creation of the British Atlantic world
Presenting a discussion of the forces that created the first British Empire, this volume explores differing perspectives on the rise of Britain as a world power between the 16th & 19th centuries
Print Book, English, 2005
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Md., 2005
History
416 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
9780801880391, 0801880394
1159817058
Introduction Carole Shammas PART I: Transatlantic SubjectsChapter 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 AtlanticChapter 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. ThomasPART II: Transatlantic ConnectionsChapter 6. Mariners, Merchants, and Colonists in Seventeenth-Century English AmericaChpater 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 PennsylvaniaPART II: Imperial Visions and Transatlantic RevisionsChapter 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