Book Description
This innovative volume brings together original essays by leading historians of the Atlantic World, representing the latest developments in historiography of the period. The volume takes a comparative approach, with individual essays examining governance in British, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Native America. As a whole, these essays present the argument that coercive imperial authority has been vastly overrated in previous scholarship due to factors like distance, the primacy of trade over politics, and the refusal of "colonized" peoples to recognize European authority.While some of the essays look at the relationships between imperial centers and colonial peripheries, others examine interactions and experiences of people at the peripheries of their respective empires, including Native Americans, African Americans and Euroamericans. No other book collects essays on the New World empires in one volume. Contributors:Ida Altman, H.V. Bowen, Philip Boucher, Amy Turner Bushnell, Leslie Choquette, Christine Daniels, Jack P. Greene, Mary Karasch, Wim Klooster, Elizabeth Mancke, Peter S. Onuf, John Jay Tepaske, David J. Weber, Michael Zuckerman.
About the Author
Christine Daniels is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the co-editor of Over the Threshold: Intimate Violence in Early America (1999) published by Routledge.
Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Challenging historical models of imperial authority, the essays in this richly comparative volume explore the complex political and economic systems of centers and peripheries in the Atlantic World and provide necessary emphasis on the negotiations present in the early modern Americas. Innovative in its scope. Negotiated Empires examines governance in British, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Native America and the interactions and experiences of people at the peripheries of these empires, including Native Americans, African Americans, and Euroamericans. Combining the work of leading scholars in the field, this collection offers new ways of thinking about how political and economic power was wielded during the early colonial era in the Americas and promises to be a defining volume in the history of the New World.
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