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Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies
Fear and the Shaping of Early American Societies is the first collection of essays to argue that fear permeated the colonial societies of 17th- and 18th-century America and to analyse its impact on the political decision-making processes from a variety of angles and locations. Indeed, the thirteen essays range from Canada to the Chesapeake, from New England to the Caribbean and from the Carolina Backcountry to Dutch Brazil. This volume assesses the typically American nature of fear factors and the responses they elicited in a transatlantic context. The essays further explore how the European colonists handled such challenges as Indian conspiracies, slave revolts, famine, “popery” and tyranny as well as werewolves and a dragon to build cohesive societies far from the metropolis. Contributors are: Sarah Barber, Benjamin Carp, Leslie Choquette, Anne-Claire Faucquez, Lauric Henneton, Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Susanne Lachenicht, Bertie Mandelblatt, Mark Meuwese, L. H. Roper, David L. Smith, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Christopher Vernon, and David Voorhees.
Settling the Good Land
Settling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop’s New England (1620-1650) is the first institutional history of the Massachusetts Bay Company, cornerstone of early modern English colonisation in North America. Agnès Delahaye analyses settlement as a form of colonial innovation, to reveal the political significance of early New England sources, above and beyond religion. John Winthrop was not just a Puritan, but a settler governor who wrote the history of the expansion of his company as a record of successful and enduring policy. Delahaye argues that settlement, as the action and the experience of appropriating the land, is key to understanding the role played by Winthrop’s writings in American historiography, before independence and in our times.
Making Empire
Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in IrelandEDin a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'EDto better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future. Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history ofthe world for the last two millennia. It is nation states that are the blip on the historical horizon. Making Empire re-examines empire as processEDand Ireland's role in itEDthrough the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between themid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, that e...
Conditional Freedom
While the literature on slave flight in nineteenth-century North America has commonly focused on fugitive slaves escaping to the U.S. North and Canada, Conditional Freedom provides new insights on the social and political geography of freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century North America by exploring the development of southern routes of escape from slavery in the U.S. South and the experiences of self-emancipated slaves in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands. In Conditional Freedom, Thomas Mareite offers a social history of U.S. refugees from slavery, and provides a political history of the clash between Mexican free soil and the spread of slavery west of the Mississippi valley during the nineteenth-century.
Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the benediction of polities. The chapters adopt intra- as well as inter-imperial perspectives and transport the reader to colonial America, the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Batavia, or Ceylon, through the Dutch, English, French and Spanish empires. Agents of European overseas empires offers crucial insight on how these actors acquired profits and power and, in turn, laid the platforms for European global empires.
The Routledge History of Irish America
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s ...
État, pouvoirs et contestations dans les monarchies française et britannique et dans leurs colonies américaines (vers 1640-vers 1780
La trame narrative et chronologique qui sous-tend la nouvelle question de Capes-Agrégation (2018-2020) porte en partie sur une période et des espaces relativement familiers aux étudiants et couverts par une large gamme d’ouvrages accessibles. C’est donc de focus thématiques précis que le besoin se faisait sentir. Cet ouvrage présente les affrontements théoriques et les mises en oeuvre de modèles monarchiques différents, leurs circulations ainsi que la diversité des discours et pratiques qui les ébranlent. Au-delà du schématisme opposant pouvoir centralisé et territorial et pouvoir polycentrique et commercial, les différentes contributions montrent la richesse des enjeux qu...
Indentured Servitude
Hundreds of thousands of British and Irish men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic during the seventeenth century as indentured servants. Many had agreed to serve for four years, but large numbers had been trafficked or “spirited away” or were sent forcibly by government agencies as criminals, political rebels, or destitute vagrants. In Indentured Servitude Anna Suranyi provides new insight into the lives of these people. The British government, Suranyi argues, profited by supplying labour for the colonies, removing unwanted populations, and reducing incarceration costs within Britain. In addition, it was believed that indigents, especially destitute children, benefited morally fro...
Les Amériques - Tome 1
Pour la première fois, un dictionnaire raconte et explore l'intégralité des Amériques – du Sud, centrale et du Nord – en montrant ce qui fait à la fois leur unité et leur grande diversité. Du Labrador à la Patagonie, de Valparaiso à Montréal, du Machu Picchu à Hollywood, des Mayas et des Amérindiens aux Noirs et aux Latinos, de George Washington à Martin Luther King et Barack Obama, de Juan Perón à Fidel Castro... Conçu en deux tomes (de l'époque précolombienne à 1830 et de 1830 à nos jours) par une équipe de 140 chercheurs français et étrangers, cet ouvrage d'une ampleur sans équivalent parcourt l'ensemble de ce continent séparé par la géographie mais uni par ...
Race et histoire dans les sociétés occidentales (XV-XVIIIe siècle)
Ce livre présente les processus de racialisation qui ont ponctué la transformation de l’Europe et de ses colonies de la fin du Moyen Âge à l’âge des révolutions. Cette histoire éclaire l’évolution des sociétés, des institutions, des cultures et des théories. Elle décrit la volonté de catégoriser les individus et les groupes, de les enclore dans des identités présentées comme intangibles, de discriminer les collectifs dominés, voire d’organiser l’oppression à grand échelle contre des populations définies par leur race. La racialisation procède par naturalisation des rapports sociaux et des caractères physiques et moraux qui se transmettent de génération en g...
