Imagining The British Atlantic After The American Revolution

Author : Michael Meranze,Saree Makdisi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442624382

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Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution by Michael Meranze,Saree Makdisi Pdf

Between 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic world. From the new industrial towns of Great Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded both the rise of democratic nationalism and the subsequent surge of imperial reaction. In Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution, nine essays consider these revolutionary transformations from a variety of literary, visual, and historical perspectives. On topics ranging from painting and poetry to prison reform, the essays challenge and complicate our understandings of revolution and reaction within the transatlantic imagination. Drawing on examples from different local and regional contexts, they demonstrate the many remarkably local ways that revolution and empire were experienced in London, Pennsylvania, Pitcairn Island, and points in between. Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253031594

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Geographies of an Imperial Power by Jeremy Black Pdf

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain’s expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the "barbarism" beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known.

Author : Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135780517

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The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution by Glyndwr Williams Pdf

First Published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : James M. Vaughn,Robert A. Olwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350109940

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Envisioning Empire by James M. Vaughn,Robert A. Olwell Pdf

Examining the pivotal period between the end of the Seven Years' War and the dawn of the American Revolution, Envisioning Empire reinterprets the development of the British Empire in the 18th century. With exceptional geographical scope, this book provides new ways of understanding the actors and events in many imperial arenas, including West Africa, North America, the Caribbean, and South Asia. While 1763 has long been seen as marking a turning point in British and British-colonial history, Envisioning Empire treats this epochal year, and the decade that followed, as constituting a discrete 'moment' in Imperial history that is significant in its own right. Exploring the programs and plans that sought to incorporate the vast new territories and millions of new subjects into the British state and imperial system, it demonstrates how the period between the end of the Seven Years' War and the beginning of the American Revolution was one of contested ideas about the future of British overseas expansion. By examining these competing imperial visions and designs from the perspective of Britain's new subjects as well as from that of British ministers, Envisioning Empire both illuminates and complicates the boundaries that have been drawn between the first and second British empires and reveals how the Empire was being conceived, discussed, and debated during an era of rapid transformation.

Author : Joanna Innes,Mark Philp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199669158

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Re-imagining Democracy in the Age of Revolutions by Joanna Innes,Mark Philp Pdf

Charts the transformation in the way people thought about democracy in the North Atlantic region in the years between the American Revolution and the revolutions of 1848.

Author : John T. McGreevy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781324003892

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Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis by John T. McGreevy Pdf

A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between “progress” and “tradition” in the world’s largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic upheavals and internal divisions shaping the most multicultural, multilingual, and global institution in the world. Through powerful individual stories and sweeping birds-eye views, Catholicism provides a mesmerizing assessment of the Church’s complex role in modern history: both shaper and follower of the politics of nation states, both conservator of hierarchies and evangelizer of egalitarianism. McGreevy documents the hopes and ambitions of European missionaries building churches and schools in all corners of the world, African Catholics fighting for political (and religious) independence, Latin American Catholics attracted to a theology of liberation, and Polish and South Korean Catholics demanding democratic governments. He includes a vast cast of riveting characters, known and unknown, including the Mexican revolutionary Fr. Servando Teresa de Mier; Daniel O’Connell, hero of Irish emancipation; Sr. Josephine Bakhita, a formerly enslaved Sudanese nun; Chinese statesman Ma Xiaobang; French philosopher and reformer Jacques Maritain; German Jewish philosopher and convert, Edith Stein; John Paul II, Polish pope and opponent of communism; Gustavo Gutiérrez, Peruvian founder of liberation theology; and French American patron of modern art, Dominique de Menil. Throughout this essential volume, McGreevy details currents of reform within the Church as well as movements protective of traditional customs and beliefs. Conflicts with political leaders and a devotional revival in the nineteenth century, the experiences of decolonization after World War II and the Second Vatican Council in the twentieth century, and the trauma of clerical sexual abuse in the twenty-first all demonstrate how religion shapes our modern world. Finally, McGreevy addresses the challenges faced by Pope Francis as he struggles to unite the over one billion members of the world’s largest religious community.

Author : S. Max Edelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674978997

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The New Map of Empire by S. Max Edelson Pdf

In 1763 British America stretched from Hudson Bay to the Keys, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Using maps that Britain created to control its new lands, Max Edelson pictures the contested geography of the British Atlantic world and offers new explanations of the causes and consequences of Britain’s imperial ambitions before the Revolution.

Author : Jerry Bannister,Liam Riordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American loyalists
ISBN : OCLC:1345624112

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The Loyal Atlantic by Jerry Bannister,Liam Riordan Pdf

Through cutting-edge archival research, The Loyal Atlantic contextualizes Loyalism within the larger history of the British Empire. It also details how, far from being a passive allegiance, Loyalism changed in unexpected and fascinating ways - especially in times of crisis. Most importantly, The Loyal Atlantic demonstrates that neither the conquest of Canada nor the American Revolution can be properly understood without assessing the meanings of Loyalism in the wider Atlantic world."--pub. desc.

Author : Margaret Conrad
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487532697

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At the Ocean's Edge by Margaret Conrad Pdf

At the Ocean’s Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia’s colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes – sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive – transferred power first from Indigenous societies to the French and British empires, and then to European settlers and their descendants who claimed the land as their own. This book not only brings Nova Scotia’s struggles into sharp focus but also unpacks the intellectual and social values that took root in the region. By the time that Nova Scotia became a province of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, its multicultural peoples, including Mi’kmaq, Acadian, African, and British, had come to a grudging, unequal, and often contested accommodation among themselves. Written in accessible and spirited prose, the narrative follows larger trends through the experiences of colourful individuals who grappled with expulsion, genocide, and war to establish the institutions, relationships, and values that still shape Nova Scotia’s identity.

Author : Elizabeth Mancke,Carole Shammas
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421419152

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The Creation of the British Atlantic World by Elizabeth Mancke,Carole Shammas Pdf

Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the interrelationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British Atlantic by examining migration patterns on both the macro and micro level. It also scrutinizes the roles played by trade, religion, ethnicity, and class in linking Atlantic borders and the increasingly complicated legal, intellectual and emotional relationship between the British sovereign and colonial charterholders. Contributors include Joyce E. Chaplin, John E. Crowley, David Barry Gaspar, April Lee Hatfield, James Horn, Ray A. Kea, Elizabeth Mancke, Philip D. Morgan, William M. Offutt, Robert Olwell, Carole Shammas, Wolfgang Splitter, Mark L. Thompson, Karin Wulf, Avihu Zakai.

Author : Peter Marshall,Glyndwr Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:163433380

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The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution by Peter Marshall,Glyndwr Williams Pdf

Author : Jerry Bannister,Liam Riordan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442661134

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The Loyal Atlantic by Jerry Bannister,Liam Riordan Pdf

Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted from the eighteenth century onward. Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus. Through cutting-edge archival research, The Loyal Atlantic contextualizes Loyalism within the larger history of the British Empire. It also details how, far from being a passive allegiance, Loyalism changed in unexpected and fascinating ways — especially in times of crisis. Most importantly, The Loyal Atlantic demonstrates that neither the conquest of Canada nor the American Revolution can be properly understood without assessing the meanings of Loyalism in the wider Atlantic world.

Author : Steven Sarson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0340760095

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British America, 1500-1800 by Steven Sarson Pdf

Strangely, the histories of empires and colonies are usually distinct fields of inquiry. In this comprehensive volume, however, Sarson combines the histories of the First British Empire and its various colonies to create a sweeping introduction to, and interpretation of, the British-American New World.

Author : Elizabeth Mancke,Carole Shammas
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421418445

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The Creation of the British Atlantic World by Elizabeth Mancke,Carole Shammas Pdf

12 A Visual Empire: Seeing the British Atlantic World from a Global British Perspective -- 13 ""Of the Old Stock"": Quakerism and Transatlantic Genealogies in Colonial British America -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Author : Srividhya Swaminathan,Adam R. Beach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317112990

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Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination by Srividhya Swaminathan,Adam R. Beach Pdf

In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.