Most of the contributing historians and scholars of literature are American or British, but they consider the Spanish, French, and especially Dutch as well as British perspectives on Europe's connection to the New World. They consider civilizing society and reconfiguring polities, transferring texts and traditions, the Dutch connection, and power and settlement. Embodying the links they discuss, the 12 essays were narrowly selected from symposia in California and January 2001 and Aberdeen in June 2002. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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"The end result is an excellent volume - and not one easily managed. It is concise (on topics that are not easily presented in a concise form), and well-written, and it has something new to say on all his chosen themes. It is an unusual book in that it is important both for scholars in the field and especially students trying to make sense of the history of British slavery." James Walvin, New West Indian Guide 83:3 (2009) 290-293.
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| Introduction. Connecting and Disconnecting with America |
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SECTION ONE CIVILISING SOCIETY, RECONFIGURING POLITIES |
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Education, Culture and the Scottish Civic Tradition |
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A Man for all Regions---Patrick Copland and Education in the Stuart World |
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The European Catholic Context of the Revolution of 1688--89: Gallicanism, Innocent XI, and Catholic Opposition |
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SECTION TWO TRANSFERRING TEXTS AND TRADITIONS |
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Transplanting Revelation, Transferring Meaning: Reading the Apocalypse in Early Modern England, Scotland and New England |
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``Religion stands on tip-toe'': George Herbert, the New England Poets, and the Transfer of Devotional Modes |
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Authority and Interpretation: Cotton Mather's Response to the European Spinozists |
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SECTION THREE THE DUTCH CONNECTION |
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Idealism and Power: The Dutch West India Company in the Brazil Trade (1630--1654) |
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A Natural Partnership? Scotland and Zeeland in the Early Seventeenth Century |
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Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Seventeenth Century: An Atlantic Partnership? |
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SECTION FOUR POWER AND SETTLEMENT |
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Richard Ligon and the Theatre of Empire |
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Boston Pays Tribute: Autonomy and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1630--1714 |
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Foreign Penetration of the Spanish Empire 1660--1714: Sweden, Scotland and England |
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| Epilogue. Becoming Atlantic |
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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.
