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THE ATLANTIC WORLD
As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the fi eld, The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration, and cultural encounters.
In the first chapters, scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world, such as slaves, European migrants, and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as fi nance, money, and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government, and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded, and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places. Including an introductory essay from the editors which defi nes the fi eld, and lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings, and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.
D’Maris Coffman is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow and Director of the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College, University of Cambridge; Adrian Leonard is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College, University of Cambridge; and William O’Reilly is lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge.
CONTRIBUTORS
James A. O. C. Brown recently completed a Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge funded by the Leverhulme Trust, exploring the development of political legitimacy in the medieval Maghrib and Islamic Spain, as part of which he contributed to a recent volume of the Proceedings of the British Academy, The Articulation of Power in Medieval Iberia and the Maghrib (2014). His other research has focused Morocco’s relationship to the emergent modern world, particularly in his fi rst book Crossing The Strait: Morocco, Gibraltar and Great Britain in the 18th and 19th Centuries (2012).
James Taylor Carson is Professor of History and Chair of Department at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His work focuses broadly on the ethnohistory of North America’s fi rst peoples and he has authored Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal (1999) and Making an Atlantic World: Circles, Paths, and Stories from the Colonial South (2007) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. He is currently working on a short book about how historians use racial language and categories to write United States’ history.
D’Maris Coffman is a Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Fellow in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge and is the Director of the Centre for Financial History at Newnham College, where she remains a fellow. From October 2008 through September 2013, she was the Mary Bateson Research Fellow at Newnham. Her fi rst monograph, Excise Taxation and the Origins of the Public Debt, was published in October 2013. Most of her current research focuses on the role of state finance in the development of capital markets in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and North America and on the consequences of the growth of the fiscal state for agricultural commodity markets.
Joanna Cohen is lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. Her research examines the intersections of consumer culture, political economy, and citizenship in nineteenth-century America. She is currently completing a book called Luxurious Citizens: Consumption and Civic Belonging in Nineteenth Century America. She has published articles in the Journal of the Early Republic and The Winterthur Portfolio and has appeared on the BBC Radio 3 program, Freethinking, as one of the AHRC New Generation Thinkers.
Nicholas Cole is a Senior Research Fellow in History at Pembroke College, Oxford. His research focuses on the political thought and governing institutions of the early American Republic. He has a particular interest in the utility of classical thought for the founding generation. He is currently working on a study of the understanding of Executive Power in the nineteenth century.
Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America, which he edited along with Peter Onuf, was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2011. Paul D’Arcy is Associate Professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. He teaches courses in Pacific history and environmental confl ict in the Asia Pacifi c region. His current research focuses on Pacific and Southeast Asian indigenous maritime history, engagement and interactions between Asia and the Pacifi c, and regional perspectives on contemporary maritime resource management in the Pacifi c region. He is the author of The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity and History in Oceania (2006). E. L. Devlin is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and a bye-fellow at Selwyn College. His research explores British diplomacy in the long eighteenth century, with a particular emphasis on cultural exchange, the public life of ambassadors, and the importance of extra-European affairs to Anglo-European relations. His first book is a study of British relations with Papal Rome in the late seventeenth century, and he is currently beginning a project investigating British responses to the baroque from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries.
Charles R. Drummond, IV, is the Postdoctoral fellow at the William P. Clements, Jr. Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft at the University of Texas at Austin. He has recently completed his Ph.D. in history at Trinity College, Cambridge that explores debates over military power in the British Isles in the second half of the seventeenth century. From 2014 to 2015 he will be a post-doctoral fellow at the Clements Center at the University of Texas at Austin where he will be working on a monograph on the original meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Laurent Dubois is Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke University, where he is the Faculty Director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics. His most recent book is Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012) and he is currently completing a history of the banjo.
Jonathan Eacott is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. His publications include, ‘Making an Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Atlantic Colonies, and the Structure of the British Empire,’ in the William and Mary Quarterly. His forthcoming book uncovers the vital importance of India in the development of the British Empire in the Atlantic and, later, the early American Republic.
Maura Jane Farrelly is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of the Journalism Program at Brandeis University. She holds a Ph.D. in history from Emory University, with an emphasis on religion and the colonial and earlyAmerican periods. Farrelly is the author of Papist Patriots: The Making of an American Catholic Identity, published by Oxford University Press. Before joining the faculty at Brandeis, she was a full-time journalist, working for Georgia Public Radio in Atlanta and the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., and New York. She has also freelanced for National Public Radio and the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Jeffrey Fortin is an Assistant Professor of History at Emmanuel College, Boston where he teaches courses on Atlantic and Early American history. His research focuses on race, migration, and identity formation during the Age of Revolution. He has published in Atlantic Studies, among other journals, and recently co-edited Atlantic Biographies: Individuals and Peoples in the Atlantic World, a collection of essays that use biography to interpret and analyze Atlantic history. Jeff is currently fi nishing a book-length biography of Paul Cuffe, the celebrated AfricanAmerican sea captain, entrepreneur, and supporter of African colonization.
Travis Glasson is Associate Professor of History at Temple University and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (2012) and his other publications include articles in the William and Mary Quarterly and the Journal of British Studies. He is currently at work on a project examining the experiences of neutrals around the British empire during the American Revolution.
Dror Goldberg is a senior lecturer in the Department of Management and Economics at The Open University of Israel. His research focuses on the history of money since the early modern period and the theory of money. He is currently writing a book entitled How Americans Invented Modern Money, 1607–1692 for the University of Chicago Press.
Gerald Groenewald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He has published widely on the social, economic, and cultural history of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Trials of Slavery (2005).
Paul Kosmetatos is a retired structured products trader, who obtained his M.A. in Early Modern History at Kings College London before undertaking a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge on the Credit Crisis of 1772/3. He has a forthcoming article in the Financial History Review on the winding up of the Ayr Bank. He won Best Graduate Student Paper at the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 2012.
Mélanie Lamotte is a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on color prejudice in the early modern French empire, especially in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Guadeloupe, Louisiana, and Bourbon Island. Her thesis is entitled ‘Colour prejudice in the early modern French empire, c. 1635–1767.’ In 2013, she was a Fellow at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress.
A. B. Leonard is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge, and Affi liated Lecturer at the University’s Faculty of Economics. He has written widely on topics related to marine insurance and the Atlantic World. Current projects include a history of commercial insurance in London in the twentieth century, editing Marine Insurance: International Development and Evolution, co-editing The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy: Circuits of Trade, Money and Knowledge, 1650–1914, and curating a permanent exhibit about the history of Lloyd’s, to be installed on the old insurance market’s trading floor. Prior to returning to academia to receive Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Economic History from Cambridge, he worked as a writer and commentator on commercial insurance for publishers including the Financial Times and Reuters.
Laura Matthew is an Associate Professor of Latin American history at Marquette University. Her research focuses on Mesoamerican history and indigenous experiences of early Spanish colonialism in Guatemala. She is the co-editor with Michel Oudijk of Indian Conquistadors: Indigenous Allies in the Conquest of Mesoamerica, and author of Memories of Conquest: Becoming Mexicano in Colonial Guatemala, winner of the Howard F. Cline Prize and the Murdo MacLeod Prize. She is currently working on a book about indigenous trade and migration along the southern Pacifi c coast in the sixteenth century.
Matthew David Mitchell is an Assistant Professor of History at Sewanee: The University of the South. He has published on joint-stock companies and on British involvement in the Atlantic slave trade in such journals as Enterprise and Society, Itinerario, and The Journal of the Historical Society. He is currently at work on a book examining the transformation of British trade with Africa between 1697 and 1732.
William Max Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Toronto specializing in the history of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. His research focuses on the ways that ideas about time, race, and biopolitics emerged in eighteenth-century France and the Atlantic world. He is the author of a forthcoming book on this topic and he recently co-edited a book with Suzanne Desan and Lynn Hunt, The French Revolution in Global Perspective.
William O’Reilly is University Lecturer at the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. He has worked on a range of topics in early modern European and Atlantic history, and is particularly interested in the history of European migration, colonialism, and imperialism. His current research project, with the working title, Surviving Empire: The Translation of Imperial Context in a Globalizing World, 1550–1800, explores the inter-relationship of European imperialisms from the later sixteenth century to the French revolution. In 2006 Dr. O’Reilly was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work in European and Atlantic History. In 2013, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for excellence in teaching.
Helen Paul is a lecturer in Economics and Economic History at the University of Southampton. She is an economic historian focusing on the early modern period, especially the Financial Revolution and Atlantic trade. Her fi rst book, The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences, is a revisionist account of the famous fi nancial crash of 1720. She has published a number of book chapters about the fi scal-military or contractor state in Britain and its links to the Royal Navy. She is currently the chair of the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society. Geoffrey Plank is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire, Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire, and An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia.
Juan J. Ponce-Vázquez is a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University. His research focuses on the Spanish Caribbean societies during the seventeenth century. His current book project, entitled At the Edge of Empire: Social and Political Defi ance in Hispaniola, 1580–1697, explores how the peoples of the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo transcended their marginal location and status within the Spanish colonial world and took advantage of the intense imperial competition that engulfed the Caribbean during the seventeenth century, with the arrival of Northern European settlers. Sandra Rebok works for the Spanish National Research Council and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the Huntington Library (2013–2015). Her actual research project focuses on the networks of knowledge Alexander von Humboldt established within the United States and his impact on the development of sciences in this country. She has recently published a book on the relationship and intellectual exchange between Humboldt and Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia Press, 2014). She has also curated several exhibitions in the fi eld of history of science.
Brian Rouleau is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University. His fi rst book, With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire, focuses on encounters between U.S. sailors and peoples overseas during the nineteenth century. He has also published articles in Diplomatic History, the Journal of the Early Republic, and Early American Studies. Edmond Smith is undertaking his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the commercial communities of early modern Europe with a specifi c focus on the English East India Company. His thesis, ‘Networks of the East India Company, 1600–1625,’ will be completed in 2015. He has published articles on Anglo-Dutch relations, the role of naval power in Indian Ocean diplomacy and the distribution of practical information for investors in overseas commerce.
John Smolenski is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on culture and identity in the Atlantic world. He is the author of Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania and the co-editor (with Thomas Humphrey) of New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas. His current book, Rethinking Creolization: Culture and Power in the Holly Snyder has been Curator of American Historical Collections at Brown University’s John Hay Library since July 2004. Her research focuses on Jews in the colonial British Atlantic, and her articles have appeared in the journals Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes, The William & Mary Quarterly, Jewish History, and Early American Studies, as well as in a number of scholarly compilations. She received her Ph.D. in American History from Brandeis University in 2000, and holds an M.S.L.S. and an M.A. degree in American History from The Catholic University of America.
Denise A. Spellberg is Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on Islamic civilization and the history of Islam in Europe and the United States. She is the recipient of the Carnegie Foundation Scholarship for her research on Islam in early America. Her most recent book is Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders (2013).
David J. Starkey is Professor of Maritime History at the University of Hull, UK. He is Chair of the British Commission for Maritime History and editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Maritime History. He has written and co-edited works on various maritime themes, with British Privateering Enterprise in the 18th Century (1990), Shipping Movements in the UK, 1871-1913 (1999), England’s Sea Fisheries (2000), Oceans Past (2007) and A History of the North Atlantic Fisheries (2009, 2012) among his published works. Catherine Styer earned her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on race, gender, slavery, and empire in the early modern Atlantic world. She is currently completing a manuscript Slaves to Empire. Before returning to academia, she trained as a solicitor in London.
Karim M. Tiro is Professor of History at Xavier University. He is the author of The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation from the Revolution through the Era of Removal and co-editor of Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani. His essays have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic, American Indian Law Review, and elsewhere. Natalie Zacek is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the colonial and antebellum American South and the Caribbean, and she is currently at work on a study of the cultural meaning of horse-racing in nineteenth-century America. Her fi rst monograph, Settler Society in the English Leeward Islands, 1670–1776 (2010), won the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize, and she has published articles in, amongst other journals, Slavery and Abolition, the Journal of Peasant Studies, and History Compass.
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