Early North America in global perspective / edited by Philip D. Morgan and Molly A. Warsh.

Early North America in global perspective / edited by Philip D. Morgan and Molly A. Warsh.

New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

ix, 405 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Rewriting histories

"Early North American history is a field in flux. In the last thirty years, the field of Atlantic History has transformed scholarly studies of colonial America, bringing to light the many connections linking the Americas to Africa and Europe. Recently, though, historians have begun to question the utility of the Atlantic framework. Some suggest that it overlooks global phenomena, while others argue for a hemispheric or continental perspective on North America's early history. Early North America in Global Perspective collects the most interesting and innovative scholarly approaches to these questions. Anchored by a robust introduction that guides the reader through the various conceptual arguments, the fourteen essays gathered here introduce students to some of the finest historians of early America working in expansive and stimulating ways. These essays capture the complexity of North America's past and are in tune with the global influences that shape its present."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contexts: American history begins : Indian peoples before the advent of Europeans / R. David Edmunds, Frederick E. Hoxie, and Neal Salisbury ; How Africans became integral to New World history / David Brion Davis ; The ecological Atlantic / J.R. McNeill
Connections: Beyond the Atlantic : English globetrotters and transoceanic connections / Alison Games ; The Iberian Atlantic and Virginia / J.H. Elliott ; A diplomacy of gender : rituals of first contact in the "Land of the Tejas" / Juliana Barr ; Iconoclasm without icons? : the destruction of sacred objects in colonial North America / Susan Juster
Transformations: The alluring Pacific Ocean / Paul W. Mapp ; Maritime masters and seafaring slaves in Bermuda, 1680-1783 / Michael J. Jarvis ; Indian intermarriage and Métissage in colonial Louisana / Kathleen DuVal ; The politics of grass : European expansion, ecological change, and indigenous power in the southwest borderlands / Pekka Hämäläinen
Tumult: The first Atlantic crisis : the American Revolution / David Armitage ; Revolutionary exiles : the American loyalist and French Emigré diasporas / Maya Jasanoff ; The contagion of rebellion / Ashli White.

Rewriting histories.

United States -- New York (State).

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