Colonial identity in the Atlantic world, 1500-1800 /

"The prolonged death throes of Europe's last overseas empires have stimulated a lively historical interest in the roots of decolonization. The theme is taken up in this elegantly written and admirably edited volume in which Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden bring together a team of special...

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Corporate Author: Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, N.J.)
Contributors: Canny, Nicholas, 1944-, Pagden, Anthony.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1987.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: colonial identity in the Atlantic world / John H. Elliott
  • The formation of a colonial identity in Brazil / Stuart B. Schwartz
  • Identity formation in Spanish America / Anthony Pagden
  • Nouvelle-France/Québec/Canada: a world of limited identities / Gilles Paquet and Jean-Pierre Wallot
  • Identity in British America: unease in Eden / Michael Zuckerman
  • Identity formation in Ireland: the emergence of the Anglo-Irish / Nicholas Canny
  • Changing identity in the British Caribbean: Barbados as a case study / Jack P. Greene
  • Afterword : from identity to independence / Anthony Pagden and Nicholas Canny.