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

Contents

Contents Preface vii part one Perspectives one Hemispheric History and Atlantic History 3 two Reformulating Englishness: Cultural Adaptation and Provinciality in the Construction of Corporate Identity in Colonial British America 19 three State Formation, Resistance, and the Creation of Revolutionary Traditions in the Early Modern Era 33 four Colonial History and National History: Reflections on a Continuing Problem 64 part two Governance five Transatlantic Colonization and the Redefinition of Empire in the Early Modern Era: The British-American Experience 83 six Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of State Authority in the Early Modern European Empires in America 101 seven Britain’s Overseas Empire before 1780: Overwhelmingly Successful and Bureaucratically Challenged 113 eight “Of Liberty and of the Colonies”: A Case Study of Constitutional Conflict in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British American Empire 140 Greene, final pages v Greene, final pages v 2/12/13 2:27 PM 2/12/13 2:27 PM vi Contents nine 1759: The Perils of Success 208 ten An Empire of Freemen? The British Debate over the Status of Overseas Representative Assemblies, 1763–1783 226 part three Identities eleven Empire and Identity from the Elizabethan Era to the American Revolution 253 twelve “By Their Laws Shall Ye Know Them”: Law and Identity in Colonial British America 278 thirteen Liberty, Slavery, and the Transformation of British Identity in the Eighteenth-Century West Indies 293 fourteen Alterity and the Production of Identity in the Early Modern British American Empire and the Early United States 323 fifteen State Identities and National Identity in the Era of the American Revolution 340 part four Social Construction sixteen Social and Cultural Capital in Colonization and State Building in the Early Modern Era: Colonial British America as a Case Study 363 seventeen Pluribus or Unum? White Ethnicity in the Formation of Colonial American Culture 381 eighteen The Cultural Dimensions of Political Transfers: An Aspect of the European Occupation of the Americas 401 nineteen Early Modern Southeastern North America and the Broader Atlantic and American Worlds 426 Index 439 Greene, final pages vi Greene, final pages vi 2/12/13 2:27 PM 2/12/13 2:27 PM ...