Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire

462 Pages·1991·26.971 MB·English

by  Bernard Bailyn, Philip D. Morgan

STRANGERS WITHIN THE REALM
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Edited by Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan
Strangers
within the Realm
Cultural Margins of the
First British Empire
Published for The Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia,
by The University of North Carolina Press,
Chapel Hill
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
is sponsored jointly by the College of William and Mary at the
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
© 1991 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Strangers within the realm / cultural margins of the first British
Empire / edited by Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan,
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-I3: 978-0-8078-1951-4 (cloth, alk. paper)
ISBN-IO: 0-8078-1952-1 (cloth, alk. paper)
ISBN-I3: 978-0-8078-4311-6 (paper, alk. paper)
ISBN-IO: 0-8078-4311-3 (paper, alk. paper)
i. Great Britain—Colonies—History—i8th century, z. Great
Britain—Colonies—History—17th century. 3. United States—
History—Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. 4. Great Britain—
Colonies—America. I. Bailyn, Bernard. II. Morgan, Philip D.,
1949- . III. Institute of Early American History and Culture
(Williamsburg, Va.)
DAi6.S9i 1991
941.06—dcio 90-40178
CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and dura-
bility of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of
the Council on Library Resources.
This volume received indirect support from an unrestricted book publica-
tions grant awarded to the Institute by the L. J. Skaggs and Mary C.
Skaggs Foundation of Oakland, California.
10 09 08 07 06 7 6 5 43
To the memory of Stephen Botein
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The genesis of this volume can be traced to a conference, "The Social World
of Britain and America, 1600-182.0: A Comparison from the Perspective of
Social History," held in Williamsburg, Virginia, in September 1985 and
sponsored by the Institute of Early American History and Culture, together
with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and the Institute of Historical
Research in England. Stephen Botein, then the visiting Editor of Publications
at the Institute, attended the conference, saw the promise of one of its
sessions, and suggested that several of the papers serve as the basis for a
larger volume of essays. He began the project himself, outlined the topics,
suggested the title of the prospective volume, and sent out the first invita-
tions to other contributors. After Stephen Botein's death in 1986 the present
editors carried the work forward, and in editing the essays they have tried to
develop his ideas fully. The responsibility for the volume, however, including
the introductory essay, remains theirs, though they hope Botein would have
been pleased with the result.
It is a pleasure to thank Thad W. Tate, director of the Institute when the
original conference was held, and Peter A. Clark, a major planner of the
conference, for their efforts in organizing that event. The editors are also
grateful to the Exxon Educational Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the British
Academy, and the British Council for funding the conference.
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CONTENTS
vii Acknowledgments
i Introduction
33 I. The Margins of Britain
35 The Marginal Kingdom: Ireland as a Problem
in the First British Empire. Nicholas Canny
67 Scotland and the Uses of the Atlantic Empire. Eric Richards
115 II. Borderlands of the West
117 "The Customes of Our Countrey":
Indians and Colonists in Early America. James H. Merrell
157 British Encounters with Africans and African-Americans,
circa 1600-1780. Philip D. Morgan
2.2.0 "The Origin of Whatever Is Not English among Us":
The Dutch-speaking and the German-speaking
Peoples of Colonial British America. A. G. Roeber
2.84 The Scotch-Irish in British America. Maldwyn A. Jones
314 Reluctant Creoles: The Planters' World in the
British West Indies. Michael Craton
363 The Cultural Landscape of Early Canada. /. M. Bumsted
393 III. The Homeland Transformed
395 Who Cared about the Colonies? The Impact of the
Thirteen Colonies on British Society and Politics,
circa 1714-1775. Jacob M. Price
437 Index
455 Notes on Contributors
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