English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 16401661

Informationen zum Autor Carla Gardina Pestana is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Ohio. Klappentext rethinking our assumptions about empire and colonialism and offers an invaluable look at the creation of the English Atlantic world. Zusammenfassung Between 1640 and 1660! England! Scotland! and Ireland faced civil war! invasion! religious radicalism! parliamentary rule! and the restoration of the monarchy. Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Notes on Dating and Editorial Method Map: The English Atlantic! 1640-1661 Introduction: Revolution and the English Atlantic Prologue: The English Atlantic in 1640 1. The Challenge of Civil War 2. Puritan Ascendancy and Religious Polarization 3. Regicide and Royalist Rebellions 4. Religious Politics of a "Puritan Revolution" 5. Free Trade and Freeborn English Men 6. Lost Liberty and Laboring People in the Atlantic World Epilogue: The English Atlantic and the Limits of Restoration Appendix 1. Population Figures! 1640 Appendix 2. London Pamphlets about New England! 1641-1649 Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Carla Gardina Pestana, Pestana Carla Gardina
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780674024120
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02412-0
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; History, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism and imperialism, General and world history, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, National liberation and independence