| Contents |
Introduction: revisiting The English Atlantic in the context of Atlantic history / Nancy L. Rhoden -- Changing spaces: reconstructing the political economy of empire / Richard R. Johnson -- Ian K. Steele as military historian / John Shy -- The Talented Mr Blathwayt: his empire revisited / Barbara C. Murison -- Patronage and governance in Francis Nicholson's empire / Randy Dunn -- Policy and patronage: Governor William Gooch and Anglo-Virginia politics, 1727-1749 81 / Stacy L. Lorenz -- William Crashaw's bridge: Bermuda and the origins of the English Atlantic, 1609-1624 / Neil Kennedy -- Forests of masts and seas of trees: the English royal forests and the Restoration Navy / Sara Morrison -- Plying the northernmost Atlantic trading route to the New World: the Hudson's Bay Company and British seaborne empire / Michael Dove -- The Atlantic of the Rival Navies, 1714-1783 / Daniel A. Baugh -- "Onenwahatirighsi Sa Gentho Skaghnughtudigh": reassessing Haudenosaunee relations with the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755 / Jon W. Parmenter -- Atlantic microcosm: the Royal American Regiment, 1755-1772 / Alexander V. Campbell -- In the King's service: provisioning and quartering the British Army in the Old Northwest, 1760-1773 / Michelle A. Hamilton -- Samson Occom: Mohegan leader, Christian shaman, and Christian sachem / David J. Norton -- Overcoming nausea: the Brothers Hesselius and the Great American mystery / Kenneth A. Lockridge -- Patriarchal authority in revolutionary Virginia: connecting familial relations and revolutionary crises / Nancy L. Rhoden -- "We are no less friendly to liberty than they": British antislavery activists respond to the crisis in the American colonies / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- Conclusion: the English Atlantic created a man of Steele who reciprocated by creating it / John M. Murrin. |
