Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14711-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 857 g

Reihe: The Atlantic World

During the past few years it has become fashionable to speak of the "British Atlantic" and examine the Anglophone communities that came to populate it shores. This collection of essays undertakes something quite different. It examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a multi-dimensional, multi-national Atlantic as a result. Spain, Sweden, and above all the Netherlands emerge as central to English and Scottish endeavors overseas and to the extremely diverse populations and cultures that eventually came to be known as British North America. This approach has led to a much richer and compelling picture of the early modern Atlantic world.

The essays show the period to be one of collaboration as well as competition and conflict. They reveal far-reaching cultural, economic, and social interpenetration. Today's nationalist and ethnic preoccupations will find little comfort from them. The world they described is far too complex to fit the easy if stylish pattern of Edward Said's "orientalizing." The result has been a book at once highly significant and immediately topical.

Contributors include: Wim Klooster, Allan I. Macinnes, Peter C. Mancall, Esther Mijers, Mark Peterson, Ernst Pijning, Steve Pincus, Kevin Sharpe, Reiner Smolinski, Jane Stevenson, Chris Storrs, Shona Vance, Helen Wilcox, and Arthur Williamson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacInnes, Allan I.

Williamson, Arthur H.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Macinnes, Allan

Williamson, Arthur H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

Introduction: Connecting and Disconnecting with America, Allan I. Macinnes

SECTION I. CIVILISING SOCIETY, RECONFIGURING POLITIES
1. Education, Culture and the Scottish Civic Tradition, Arthur Williamson
2. A Man for all Regions—Patrick Copland and Education in the Stuart World, Shona Vance
3. The European Catholic Context of the Revolution of 1688–89: Gallicanism, Innocent XI, and Catholic Opposition, Steve Pincus

SECTION II. TRANSFERRING TEXTS AND TRADITIONS
4. Transplanting Revelation, Transferring Meaning: Reading the Apocalypse in Early Modern England, Scotland and New England, Kevin Sharpe
5. “Religion stands on tip-toe”: George Herbert, the New England Poets, and the Transfer of Devotional Modes, Helen Wilcox
6. Authority and Interpretation: Cotton Mather’s Response to the European Spinozists, Reiner Smolinski

SECTION III. THE DUTCH CONNECTION
7. Idealism and Power: The Dutch West India Company in the Brazil Trade (1630–1654), Ernst Pijning
8. A Natural Partnership? Scotland and Zeeland in the Early Seventeenth Century, Esther Mijers
9. Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Seventeenth Century: An Atlantic Partnership?, Wim Klooster

SECTION IV. POWER AND SETTLEMENT
10. Richard Ligon and the Theatre of Empire, Jane Stevenson
11. Boston Pays Tribute: Autonomy and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1630–1714, Mark Peterson
12. Foreign Penetration of the Spanish Empire 1660–1714: Sweden, Scotland and England, Chris Storrs

Epilogue: Becoming Atlantic, Peter C. Mancall

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Allan I. Macinnes, Ph.D. (1987), Glasgow, holds the Burnett-Fletcher Chair of History at Aberdeen University. His principal publications are three monographs - Charles I and the Making of the Coveanting Movement,1625-41 (1991 & 2003); Clanship, Commerce and the House of Stuart, 1603-1788 (1996 & 2000); and The British Revolution, 1629-1660 (2004).

Arthur H. Williamson, Ph.D. (1974), Washington University, St. Louis, has written extensively about early modern British political culture. His most recent book is The British Union (London, 2003), which he edited with Paul McGinnis. He is now completing a volume under the title, Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Then: Prophecy and the Shaping of the Modern World which will appear in 2006.