Experiencing Empire: Power, People, and Revolution in Early America PDF
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Experiencing Empire Early American Histories Douglas Bradburn, John C. Coombs, and S. Max Edelson, Editors Experiencing Empire Power, People, and Revolution in Early America Edited by Patrick Griffin University of Virginia Press Charlottesville and London University of Virginia Press © 2017 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-f ree paper First published 2017 ISBN 978-0-8139-3988-9 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8139-3989-6 (ebook) 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. Cover art: Detail of A New Generall Chart for the West Indies of E. Wright’s Projection vut. Mercator’s Chart, Sold by W. and I. Mount and T. Page on Tower Hill, London. (Courtesy of the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine) Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Imagining an American Imperial- Revolutionary History 1 Part I: Empire and Provincials The Baubles of America: Object Lessons from the Eclectic Empire of Peter Williamson 27 Timothy J. Shannon Imperial Vineyards: Wine and Politics in the Early American South 50 Owen Stanwood Sex and Empire in Eighteenth- Century St. Louis 71 Patricia Cleary On Their Own Ground: Native Power and Colonial Property on the Maine Frontier 88 Ian Saxine Part II: War, Revolution, Empires Efficient and Effective: The Deceptive Success of British Strategy at Fort Stanwix during the Seven Years’ War 111 James Coltrain Rethinking Failure: The French Empire in the Age of John Law 127 Christopher Hodson John Almon’s Web: Networks of Print, Politics, and Place in Revolutionary London, 1760–1780 147 Michael Guenther Part III: The Ghosts of Empire Forgiving and Forgetting in Postrevolutionary America 171 Donald F. Johnson Abbe’s Ghost: Negotiating Slavery in Paris, 1783–1784 189 David N. Gellman Seeing Like an Antiquarian: Popular Nostalgia and the Rise of a Modern Historical Subjectivity in the 1820s 212 Seth Cotlar Conclusion: What Time Was the American Revolution? Reflections on a Familiar Narrative 233 T. H. Breen Afterword 247 Joyce E. Chaplin Notes on Contributors 263 Index 265 Acknowledgments The essays in this collection have their origins in a conference held at North- western University in June 2013 in honor of T. H. Breen. The conference would have never come off without the work of Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe. A first-r ate historian and an able administrator (a rara avis, in other words), Beth helped shape the intellectual content of the conference and saw to the logistical details. No Beth, no volume. I also owe a great debt to Sam Fisher, who helped me with a great many details. Lisa Gallagher similarly did yeo- man’s work on formatting the essays. The contributors deserve a special word of thanks. They were delightful, and they met deadlines! I doubt I will ever utter that phrase again. Dick Hol- way was his usual enthusiastic, visionary self. This does not surprise me, as I have known Dick for so long. He is a pro’s pro and knows a good collection when he sees it. He, too, is a delight to work with. The external reviewers gave me some sage advice. I was impressed with how closely they read the essays and the introduction. I found their insights invaluable, and I think the collection is much stronger for their efforts. I learned after the fact that the late Drew Cayton was an earlier reader. His reading had a great effect on how I framed the introduction. Such was always the case whenever I gave Drew anything to read. There was no scholar more selfless than Drew Cayton. He is terribly missed, but I would like to think in some way his thoughts live on in this volume. Finally, I would like to thank Tim Breen. I first got to know Tim as a men- tor. Now I regard him as a dear friend. There is really little I could do to thank him for all he has done for me over the course of my career. This volume is but a small token. Experiencing Empire
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