Experiencing empire : power, people, and revolution in early America /
Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power and its absence in dynamic ways. On both sides of the revolutionary divide, Americans viewed themselves as an imperial people. This perspective conditioned how they understo...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Early American histories.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Imagining America's imperial-revolutionary moment
- Empire and provincials
- The baubles of America: object lessons from the eclectic empire of Peter Williamson / Timothy J. Shannon
- Imperial vineyards: wine and politics in the early American South / Owen Stanwood
- Sex and empire in eighteenth-century St. Louis / Patricia Cleary
- On their own ground: native power and colonial property on the maine frontier / Ian Saxine
- War, revolution, empires
- Efficient and effective: the deceptive success of British strategy at Fort Stanwix during the Seven Years' War / James Coltrain
- Rethinking failure: the French empire in the age of John Law / Christopher Hodson
- John Almon's web: networks of print, politics, and place in revolutionary London, 1760-1780 / Michael Guenther
- The ghosts of empire
- Forgiving and forgetting in postrevolutionary America / Donald F. Johnson
- Abbe's ghost: negotiating slavery in Paris, 1783-1784 / David N. Gellman
- Seeing like an antiquarian: popular nostalgia and the rise of a modern historical subjectivity in the 1820s / Seth Cotlar
- Conclusion: what time was the American revolution? Reflections on a familiar narrative / T.H. Breen.