Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820

ISBN-13: 9780415925389 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.

Christine Daniels; Michael V. Kennedy

Opis

This volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing recent developments in historiography of the period. These essays present the argument that coercive imperial authority has been vastly overrated. Distance, the primacy of trade over politics, and the refusal of colonized peoples to recognize European authority resulted in de-centralized American empires.

Recenzje

"The fourteen substantive essays in this volume and the introduction to them, all crafted with impressive imagination and skill by careful scholars, demonstrate persuasively how applicable the conceptual framework of center-periphery analysis can be. The volume as a whole . raises challenging questions that enrich the study of early modern empires." -- David Barry Gaspar, Duke University
"This fine collection of essays brings together the history of the Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and British Atlantic empires in a way that illuminates the tensions within and connections between them. In bringing together experts on all of these regions to present a work that truly encompasses all of the Americas, the editors have made a major contribution to the field." -- Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University
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"This collection is highly recommended. Specialists will appreciate the new work on debates that are central to their fields, but, more important, Negotiated Empires offers an accessible, comprehensive, and challenging introduction for non-specialists in one volume. It is a timely and welcome addition to the literature available on world history, Atlantic history, and other comparative or tropical concerns.
." -- Kevin Gosner, University of Arizona

Spis treści

Preface, Christine DanielsPeripheries, Centers and the Construction of Early Modern American Empires: An Introduction, Jack P. Greene and Amy Turner BushnellGates and Patterns: Regarding the Spanish American Peripheries, Amy Turner BushnellIntegral to Empire: The Vital Peripheries of Colonial Spanish America, John Jay TepaskReconsidering the Center: Puebla and Mexico City, 1550-1650, Ida AltmanColonial Centers, Colonial Peripheries and the Economic Agency of the Spanish State, Lyman L. Johnson and Susan Migden SocolowBourbons and Barbaros: Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy, David J. WeberCenters and Peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian World, 1500-1808, A.J.R. Russell-Wood The Periphery of the Periphery?: Vila Boa de Goias, 1780-1835, Mary KaraschOther Netherlands Beyond the Sea: Dutch America Between Metropolitan Control and Divergence, 1600-1795, Wim KloosterCenter and Periphery in French North America, Leslie ChoquetteThe Frontier Era of the French Caribbean, 1620s-1690s, Philip BoucherNegotiating an Empire: Britain and Its Overseas Peripheries, c. 1550-1780, Elizabeth Mancke Transatlantic Colonization and the Definition of Empire in the Early Modern Era: The British-American Experience, Jack P. GreenePerceptions from the Periphery: Colonial American Views of Britain's Asiatic Empire, 1756-1783, H.V. BowenEmpire for Liberty: Center and Peripheries in Post-Colonial America, Peter S. Onuf

O autorze

Christine Daniels is Associate Professor of American History at Michigan State University.

Michael V. Kennedy is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Flint.