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English Atlantics revisited : essays honouring Professor Ian K. Steele / edited by Nancy L. Rhoden.

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McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.

909.0971241 E58

Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History.

North Atlantic Region -- History.

9780773532199 (bound)

0773532196 (bound)

xxviii, 528 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: revisiting The English Atlantic in the context of Atlantic history / Nancy L. Rhoden -- 1. Changing spaces: reconstructing the political economy of empire / Richard R. Johnson -- 2. Ian K. Steele as military historian / John Shy -- 3. The Talented Mr Blathwayt: his empire revisited / Barbara C. Murison -- 4. Patronage and governance in Francis Nicholson's empire / Randy Dunn -- 5. Policy and patronage: Governor William Gooch and Anglo-Virginia politics, 1727-1749 / Stacy L. Lorenz -- 6. William Crashaw's bridge: Bermuda and the origins of the English Atlantic, 1609-1624 / Neil Kennedy -- 7. Forests of masts and seas of trees: the English royal forests and the Restoration Navy / Sara Morrison -- 8. Plying the northernmost Atlantic trading route to the New World: the Hudson's Bay Company and British seaborne empire / Michael Dove -- 9. The Atlantic of the Rival Navies, 1714-1783 / Daniel A. Baugh -- 10. "Onenwahatirighsi Sa Gentho Skaghnughtudigh": reassessing Haudenosaunee relations with the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755 / Jon W. Parmenter -- 11. Atlantic microcosm: the Royal American Regiment, 1755-1772 / Alexander V. Campbell -- 12. In the King's service: provisioning and quartering the British Army in the Old Northwest, 1760-1773 / Michelle A. Hamilton -- 13. Samson Occom: Mohegan leader, Christian shaman, and Christian sachem / David J. Norton -- 14. Overcoming nausea: the Brothers Hesselius and the Great American mystery / Kenneth A. Lockridge -- 15. Patriarchal authority in revolutionary Virginia: connecting familial relations and revolutionary crises / Nancy L. Rhoden -- 16. "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.

Steele, Ian K., 1937-

Rhoden, Nancy L. (Nancy Lee), 1965-

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