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Index academies. See education, academy/college /university accounting and accounting manuals, 19, 61–62, 67–69, 78–81, 97–98, 138, 147, 154, 157, 194, 202, 236. See also numeracy Addison, Joseph, 24, 54 Africa, 27, 29, 86, 101, 105, 127, 186; Morocco, 181 African Americans, 237, 284 Africans, enslaved, 1, 2, 7, 8, 10, 11, 54, 64, 85–86, 88–90, 105, 111–14, 139–40, 269, 278–79, 286–87. See also blacks, enslaved agency, claims of, 53, 58–61, 65, 75–76, 80, 83, 89, 98–99, 101–2, 109, 111, 113–14, 140, 142–43, 152, 164, 167, 169, 177, 186–88, 191, 222–27, 229–30, 237, 239, 244, 247, 249, 254, 256–58, 263, 265–66, 268, 279, 283, 285 agency, concept of, xiv, xvii–xviii, 2–8, 76 agency, ideology of, 5, 6, 8, 53, 187, 283, 285 Allen, Ralph, 48 American Revolution, xii–xiii, 189–235, 256, 269, 275. See also War of American Independence Americas, 27, 54, 81, 101. See also North America Amherst, Jeffrey, 126, 132 Anti-Pamela, 146. See also Haywood, Eliza; Pamela antislavery, 236, 258–66 aristocracy, 8, 20, 22, 26, 62, 64, 69, 72, 91, 144, 146–47, 276, 277. See also elite; gentry arithmetic, 65–67, 78, 154, 157, 184, 238, 267. See also numeracy army, American. See Continental Army army, English/British, 39, 62, 114, 125, 206, 208, 210–11, 216, 219. See also officers , military, British; soldiers, British artisans, 32, 35–36, 79, 95, 96, 97, 110–11, 118, 143, 180, 182 Asia, 27, 105, 130; China, 9, 29, 54, 105; India, 54, 105, 127, 181, 186, 278; Japan, 29, 54 Atkin, Edmond, 116, 124–25, 128–29, 131– 32, 135 Atlantic world, xii, xiii, xiv, xvii, xviii, 1–2, 12–17, 27, 36–51, 52–61, 64, 73, 76, 79, 81–92, 96–99, 100–115, 118–19, 131–32, 136, 140–41, 144, 147, 152, 178, 181, 183, 186–87, 190, 197, 207, 214–15, 247, 269, 272, 274, 276, 281–84 atlases, 29–30, 266, 272, 277. See also gazetteers ; road atlases Ayres, John, 68 Bache, Richard, 205 backcountry. See frontier Badger, Joseph, 92 Baldwin family, 244–45 Ball, Elizabeth, 177 Baltimore, Maryland, 192–206, 273–74, 278 Barksdale, William, 166–68 Barons, Benjamin, 133 Belknap, Jeremy, 239 Benezet, Anthony, 154 Bingham, Caleb, 240–42 Blackburn, Joseph, 92 blacks, enslaved, 89, 93, 236–37, 249–66, 276, 279. See also Africans, enslaved blacks, free, 235–37, 258–59, 261–64, 266 Bland, Theodorick, 174–75 Blathwayt, William, 47 Board of Trade, 45, 47, 124, 129. See also Lords of Trade and Plantations booksellers and bookshops, 34, 95, 148, 283 Boston, Massachusetts, 12–15, 38, 39, 41, 49, 50, 55, 57, 58, 60, 72, 91, 92, 105, 107, 152, 157, 194–96, 201, 203–4, 206, 348 Index Boston, Massachusetts (continued) 213, 215, 222–25, 227–28, 239–40, 245, 260, 262–63, 277 Bouquet, Henry, 114–27, 132, 140 Bowen family, 245–46 A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century, 1, 281. See also Miller, Samuel Briggs family, 278–79 Britain, xii, xiii, xiv, 1, 3–4, 6, 11, 43, 47–49, 53–56, 60, 62, 64, 76, 78, 80–81, 85–87, 89–91, 93, 96, 99, 100, 109, 111–13, 116, 124, 127–32, 141, 143–44, 146–50, 152, 154–55, 178–88, 190, 193, 195, 198, 208, 227, 236, 267–68, 270–73, 281–82. See also British Empire; England British Empire, xiii, 9–12, 43, 50–51, 53, 55, 61, 79, 89, 100, 102, 105, 113, 115, 127– 29, 131–32, 139–40, 143, 178–88, 189– 92, 192–206, 212, 232, 270–71, 275, 278. See also Britain; England Buchanan, James, 156 bureaucracy, imperial, 18, 23–24, 33–35, 37, 38, 42, 45–47, 51, 54, 55, 129, 131, 275. See also customs service business ideology, 61–81 business manuals, 6, 53, 62–65, 67–69, 72, 99, 178, 184–86 business training manuals, 61–62, 67–69, 78, 155 Campbell, John, 111, 113–15 Campbell, Robert, 182 Canada, 50, 116, 127, 132–33, 138, 195, 202. See also North America; Quebec capitalism, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 54–56, 60–61, 102, 282, 286–89. See also imperialism; market economy Caribbean. See West Indies Carolinas, 37, 40. See also North Carolina; South Carolina Chamberlayne, Edward, 33–36, 43 Chandlee, Benjamin, 110 Chandler, Mrs., 218 Charleston, South Carolina, 51, 82, 83, 85– 89, 93...

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