Early North America in Global Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780415808835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 416 str.

Philip D. Morgan; Molly A. Warsh

Opis

Early North American history is a field in flux. In the last thirty years, the field of Atlantic History has transformed scholarly studies of colonial America, bringing to light the connections linking the Americas to Africa and Europe. Recently, though, historians have begun to question whether or not the Atlantic framework is too confining and artificial. Some historians have actually argued for keeping the orientation on the Western Hemisphere, or even on North America itself.

Early North America in Global Perspective collects the most interesting and innovative of the various strands of scholarly argument together for student use. Here in one place, anchored by a robust introduction that guides one through the various conceptual arguments, students can read the words of historians from different viewpoints, in order to shed light on America's place in the world, without subsuming the history of North America into the larger narrative of the Atlantic World.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Contexts  1. American History Begins: Indian Peoples before the Advent of Europeans R. David Edmunds, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury  2. How Africans Became Integral to New World History David Brion Davis  3. The Ecological Atlantic J.R. McNeill  Part II: Connections  4. Beyond the Atlantic: English Globetrotters and Transoceanic Connections Alison Games  5. The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia J.H. Elliott  6. A Diplomacy of Gender: Rituals of First Contact in the “Land of the Tejas” Juliana Barr  7. Iconoclasm Without Icons? The Destruction of Sacred Objects in Colonial North America Susan Juster  Part III: Transformations  8. The Alluring Pacific Ocean Paul W. Mapp  9. Maritime Masters and Seafaring Slaves in Bermuda, 1680-1783 Michael J. Jarvis  10. Indian Intermarriage and Métissage in Colonial Louisana Kathleen DuVal  11. The Politics of Grass: European Expansion, Ecological Change, and Indigenous Power in the Southwest Borderlands Pekka Hämäläinen  Part IV: Tumult  12. The First Atlantic Crisis: The American Revolution David Armitage  13. Revolutionary Exiles: The American Loyalist and French Emigré Diasporas Maya Jasanoff  14. The Contagion of Rebellion Ashli White  Permission Acknowledgements  Index