Creating the British Atlantic: Essays on Transplantation, Adaptation, and Continuity

Index

Index Abercromby, James: and metropolitan conceptions of empire, 271; on need to reform British imperial governance, 96–97 Abingdon, Lord, on colonial claims to British liberty, 240 Absolutism, ideology of: in early modern Europe, 37; in early modern England, 43–44, 46; and early modern European governance, 255; expropriation of, by revolutionary French regimes, 55–57; —, by British King-in-Parliament, 99 Acadia: ceded to Britain, 402; as retained transfer under Britain and limited extension of English culture to, 409, 411–12, 414. See also Nova Scotia Acadians: cultural annihilation of, in Nova Scotia, 423; expulsion from Nova Scotia, 210, 411, 412 Adams, Abigail, 346 Adams, John, 279; on behavior of Maryland and New York delegates, 346–47; on congressional delegates’ jealousy of New England, 346; on differences among American colonies and congressional delegates , 283, 345, 348; on popular response to South Carolina constitution, 352; on settler purchase of Indian lands, 279; on slowness in forming a national government , 351; on superiority of New England delegates, 347; on Virginia and North Carolina constitutions, 352 Adaptability, as attribute of social and cultural capital, 368 Adaptation, cultural: in the Americas, 19–32; of British social and cultural capital to colonial societies, 364–72; of English consensual governance and English legalities in American colonies, 105–6, 109–10, 136, 143–48, 289; of English identity to American colonies, 342–43; of English libertarian inheritance to slave societies, 294–322; of metropolitan culture to American colonies, 267–77 Addison, Joseph, 320–21 Adolphus, Gustavus, 260 Adventurers, private or state-authorized, in the early construction of empire, 86, 117–18 Africa: British representative government in eastern African colonies of, 224; contributions of factories in, to British commerce, 115; forced migrations from, 381–82; and trade with Britain, 116 African Americans: and assimilation process in colonial British America, 399; as comparative models in the shaping of settler identity, 29 African slavery and American colonization, 11 African slave trade, 20, 113; application of humanitarian standards to, 225 Alba, Duke of, and Netherlands Revolt, 40 Algeria, 66, 67 Allen, David Grayson, on transplantation of English culture to New World, 401 Alleyne, John Gay: defends Barbados response to Stamp Act crisis, 317–21; on relationship between slavery and defense of provincial rights, 317–19, 321 Greene, final pages 439 Greene, final pages 439 2/12/13 2:27 PM 2/12/13 2:27 PM 440 Index Alterity, language of, as applied by metropolitan Britons to colonists and colonies and overseas Britons, 30–31, 51, 272–74, 282, 291, 297–99, 323–39 A. M., anon., on colonial claims to British liberty, 234–35 America, cultural transformation of, 19–32 American, negotiation of meaning of, in new territories, 415–16 American Civil War, 359 American Plantation Duties Act of 1764 as reform measure, 223 American question: and colonial claims to British identity, 342; debate over, 213–25; and debate over constitutional status of colonial assemblies, 227–49; and the othering of American settlers, 337–39; and West Indian response to debate over, 316–22 American Revolution, 55, 373, 376, 379, 382, 426; causes and nature of, 48–54; contrasted to French Revolution, 74; as a decentralizing revolution, 53–54; effects on British Empire of, 100, 211–12; effects on colonial identities, 29–30; as settler revolt, 51; similarity to previous early modern revolutions, 46–51; weakness of transformative power of, 78 American Studies and study of identity, 15 American War for Independence, 12–13, 209; causes of, 213–24; and effect on debate over constitutional status of colonial assemblies, 227–49 Amerindians. See Indigenous Americans Ancient Constitution, 44–45 Anderson, Adam: on British colonial administration, 221–22; on British commercial development, 263; on commerce with American colonies, 264 Anderson, Benedict: on relationship of creoles and metropolitans, 267; on creole conceptions of cultural status, 269 Anglicization of colonies, 30–31 Anglocentrism of colonial British America scholarship, 21–22 Annalistes: methods, 7; objectives, 4, 21–22, 68–69 Antigua, 142; assembly of, 105; and conflicts over settler claims to English rights and legalities, 297 Antislavery: and an early attack on Jamaican slavery, 300–302; and negative assessment of creole despotism in American colonies, 273–74 Arkansas and incorporation of English legal system in new state polity, 416–18 Armitage, David, on character of British Empire, 210 Arnold, Morris S., on the incorporation of English legal system in Arkansas, 416 Articles of Confederation, 72–73, 351, 355; and United States expansion, 415 Assemblies, colonial. See Parliamentary institutions, colonial Assimilation: as cultural objective...