Creation of the British Atlantic World

Elizabeth Mancke is a professor of history and the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Studies at the University of New Brunswick. Carole Shammas is the John R. Hubbard Chair Emerita in History at the University of Southern California.

This is a seminal collection that over the years will provide both inspiration and guidance to those striving to understand the 'how' and 'why' of imperialism and imperial historiography. Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History The popularity of Atlantic history is proven by a stream of publications in recent years, but few have attained the quality of this excellent collection. Journal of American History The contributors and editors have done us a great service by bringing together in one volume some of the more creative and novel approaches to Atlantic history. Journal of World History A fine collection. -- Christopher Hodson Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Beautifully set up... and provides tantalizing insights. -- Marie Donaghay International Journal of Maritime History A valuable contribution to transatlantic studies. Sixteenth Century Journal This book - written for the most part by Greene's former students - is both a tribute to and recognition of Greene's ambiguous legacy. -- Owen Stanwood Americas A collection of superb essays. -- Peter A. Coclanis New West Indian Guide This volume offers what readers have come to expect from publishing houses such as Johns Hopkins University Press, namely solid and reliable scholarship... a valuable contribution. -- Klaus H. Schmidt Amerikastudien / American Studies

• Introduction Carole Shammas PART I: Transatlantic SubjectsChapter 1. Settlers and Slaves: European and African Migrations to Early Modern British America Chapter 2. Enslavement of Indians in Early America: Captivity without the Narrative Chapter 3. "The Predicament of Ubi": Locating Authority and National Identity in the Seventeenth-Century English AtlanticChapter 4. "Subjects to the King of Portugal": Captivity and Repatriation in the Atlantic Slave Trade (Antigua, 1724)Chapter 5. From Catholicism to Moravian Pietism: The World of Marotta/Magdalena, a Woman of Popo and St. ThomasPART II: Transatlantic ConnectionsChapter 6. Mariners, Merchants, and Colonists in Seventeenth-Century English AmericaChpater 7. The Atlantic Rules: The Legalistic Turn in Colonial British America Chapter 8. Jonathan Edwards, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of Protestant Tradition in America Chapter 9. Order, Ordination, Subordination: German Lutheran Missionaries in Eighteenth-Century PennsylvaniaPART II: Imperial Visions and Transatlantic RevisionsChapter 10. Chartered Enterprises and the Evolution of the British Atlantic World Chapter 11. Seeds of Empire: Florida, Kew, and the British Imperial Meridian in the 176os Chapter 12. A Visual Empire: Seeing the British Atlantic World from a Global British Perspective Chapter 13. "Of the Old Stock": Quakerism and Transatlantic Genealogies in Colonial British America Notes List of Contributors Index