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British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
2013,2014,2016
Overview
Until relatively recently, the linkage between British Imperial History and the History of Early America was taken for granted. This is no longer the case. Instead, Early American historiography has suffered from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos demand this or that reordering of the subject to combine time periods and geographical areas in ways that would have previously seemed anomalous. Along the way, it has become a commonplace to announce that the history of America is best accounted for in America itself in a three-way melee between “settlers,” the indigenous populations, and the forcibly transported African slaves and their creole descendants. Our collection recognizes the value of the historiographic work done under this new dispensation in the last two decades or so and tries to incorporate its insights. However, we advocate a pluralistic approach to the subject generally and attempt to demonstrate that the metropolitan power was of more than secondary importance to America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Each of the contributors has been asked to address two questions: did it matter to the people who lived in the areas of Eastern North America that eventually became the United States that they were subjects of an empire and, if so, did it matter that the empire in question was British? The answer in each case is “Yes,” although not without some considerable complexity in the respective formulations. At the least, however, the combined effect is to re-validate Imperial history as one of the useful ways of describing and explaining early America.
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Oxford University Press,Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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ISBN
9780199206124, 0199206120
