Anglicizing America

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Bryn Mawr College. He is author of The Door of the Seas and Key to the Universe: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darien, 1640-1750. Andrew Shankman is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and author of Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania. David J. Silverman is Professor of History at George Washington University. He is author of Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America and Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community Among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard, 1600-1871, and coauthor of Ninigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts: Diplomacy, War, and the Balance of Power in Seventeenth-Century New England and Indian Country.

"The volume does a masterful job at pulling together the various threads on Anglicization and extending it from the midcolonial period through the early republic."-Ned Landsman, author of Crossroads of Empire

• Introduction-Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Andrew Shankman, and David J. SilvermanPART I. ANGLICIZATIONChapter 1. England and Colonial America: A Novel Theory of the American Revolution-John M. MurrinChapter 2. A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Achievement of John M. Murrin-Andrew ShankmanPART II. EMPIREChapter 3. "In Great Slavery and Bondage": White Labor and the Development of Plantation Slavery in British America-Simon P. NewmanChapter 4. Anglicizing the League: The Writing of Cadwallader Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations-William Howard CarterChapter 5. A Medieval Response to a Wilderness Need: Anglicizing Warfare in Colonial America-Geoffrey PlankPART III. REVOLUTIONChapter 6. Anglicanism, Dissent, and Toleration in Eighteenth-Century British Colonies-Nancy L. RhodenChapter 7. Anglicization Against the Empire: Revolutionary Ideas and Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts-Jeremy A. SternPART IV. REPUBLICChapter 8. Racial Walls: Race and the Emergence of American White Nationalism-David J. SilvermanChapter 9. De-Anglicization: The Jeffersonian Attack on an American Naval Establishment-Denver BrunsmanChapter 10. Anglicization and the American Taxpayer, c. 1763-1815-Anthony M. JosephConclusion. Anglicization Reconsidered-Ignacio Gallup-DiazNotesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments