Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America

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

Author(s): Patrick Griffin
Published: 2017
Categories: Great Britain