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List of contents
1. Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, "Introduction"
Part I: Spanish Empire; Spanish Influences
2. Alexander Ponsen, "From Monarchy to Empire: Ideologies, Institutions, and the Limits of Spanish Imperial Sovereignty, 1492-1700"
3. Jorge Canizares-Esguerra and Bradley J. Dixon, "’The Oversight of King Henry VII’: Imperial Envy and the Making of British America"
4. Bianca Brigidi and James F. Brooks, "Indo-Hispano Borderlands in the Americas: Entanglements, North and South"
Part II. Unfree Labor
5. Abigail L. Swingen, "Labor, Empire, and the State: The English Imperial Experience in the Seventeenth Century"
6. Jenny Shaw, "The Early English Caribbean: Conflict, the Census, and Control"
7. Justin Roberts, "The Development of Slavery in the British Americas"
Part III. British Colonial Developments and the Fates of Indigenous Polities
8. Neal Salisbury, "Spiritual Giants, Worldly Empires: Indigenous Peoples and New England to the 1680s"
9. Wendy Warren, "’Vast and Furious’: Understanding an Atlantic New England"
10. Ned C. Landsman, "The Middle Colonies: Region, Restoration, and Imperial Integration"
11. Daniel K. Richter, "His Own, Their Own: Settler Colonialism, Native Peoples, and the Balance of Power in Eastern North America, 1660-1715"
12. Kathleen M. Brown, "The Chesapeake: Putting Maryland on the Map"
13. Carla Gardina Pestana, "Protestantism as Ideology in the British Atlantic World"
14. Joyce E. Chaplin, "Was Knowledge Power?: Science in the British Atlantic"
Part IV: Competition and Imperial Frontiers
15. Wim Klooster, "Defying Mercantilism: Dutch Inter-Imperial Trade in the Atlantic World"
16. Paul W. Mapp, "Atlantic, Western, and Continental Early America"
17. Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis, "Native-European Interactions in North America and the Trade in Furs"
18. Elizabeth Ellis, "Dismantling the Dream of ‘France’s Peru’: Indian and African Influences on the Development of Early Colonial Louisiana"
Part V. Revolutions
19. Andrew Shankman and Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, "How to Lose an Empire: British Misperceptions of the Sinews of the Trans-Atlantic System"
20. Jane Landers, "The Revolutionary Black Atlantic: From Royalists to Revolutionaries"
About the author
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz is Associate Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College.
Summary
The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the world of Early America and its relationship to the surrounding Atlantic economy.
