Reviews
Very engaging collection of twelve original essays.
This book is... important, inspiring readers to think about the identity issues of late Colonial America in new and novel ways.
A helpful introduction.
An impressive collection of accessible essays from twelve historians.
The editors here are to be applauded for coping so admirably with the challenge of creating a coherent volume out of such a broad range of topics.
All of the essays work together to formulate a whole that is much larger than the sum of its individual parts.... The cross-pollination of ideas and common link to Greene's theories help to make this volume a coherent dialogue among scholars.
The editors here are to be applauded for coping so admirably with the challenge of creating a coherent volume out of such a broad range of topics.
Book Details
Introduction
Part I: Environment and Identity
1. The Nature of Slavery: Environmental Disorder and Slave Agency in Colonial South Carolina
2. "For Want of a Social Set": Networks and Social Interaction
Introduction
Part I: Environment and Identity
1. The Nature of Slavery: Environmental Disorder and Slave Agency in Colonial South Carolina
2. "For Want of a Social Set": Networks and Social Interaction in the Lower Cape Fear Region of North Carolina, 1725-1775
3. "Almost an Englishman": Eighteenth-Century Anglo-African Identities
4. Conservation, Class, and Controversy in Early America
Part II: Exchange and Identity
5. Beyond Declension: Economic Adaptation and the Pursuit of Export Markets in the Massachusetts Bay Region, 1630-1700
6. Paternalism and Profits: Planters and Overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825
7. "The Fewnesse of Handicraftsmen": Artisan Adaptation and Innovation in the Colonial Chesapeake
8. The Other "Susquahannah Traders": Women and Exchange on the Pennsylvania Frontier
Part III: Politics and Identity
9. A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke
10. Enjoying and Defending Charter Privileges: Corporate Status and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island
11. Native Americans, the Plan of 1764, and a British Empire That Never Was
12. Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America
Notes
List of Contributors
Index