The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820

This volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America.

Eliga Gould (Edited by), Paul Mapp (Edited by), Carla Gardina Pestana (Edited by)

9781108419222, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 March 2022

618 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 3.2 cm, 1.13 kg

The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.

List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Contributors to Volume I
General Introduction: What is America and the World? Mark Philip Bradley
Introduction to Volume I Eliga Gould, Paul Mapp and Carla Gardina Pestana
Part I. Geographies
1. Changing American Geographies S. Max Edelson
2. Maritime Borderlands Andrew Lipman
3. The Americas and the Contested Aquatic World of the Atlantic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans Rainer F. Buschmann
4. Extractive Industries and the Transformation of American Environments Jennifer L. Anderson
Part II. People
5. Jews, Muslims, Pagans and America David Abulafia
6. Statelessness, Subjecthood and the Early American Past Christopher Hodson
7. Mobility and the Movement of Peoples Patrick Griffin
8. How Native Americans Shaped Early America Pekka Hämäläinen
Part III. Empires
9. The Early Iberian American World Kevin Terraciano
10. Making Colonies and Empires in North America and the Greater Caribbean Alison Games
11. Imperial Wars, Imperial Reforms Eric Hinderaker and Rebecca Horn
12. Law and Empire, 1500–1820 Catherine Evans and Philip Girard
Part IV. Circulation/connections
13. West Africa, 1500–1825 Rebecca Shumway
14. Trade Emma Hart
15. Uncertain America: Settler Colonies, the Circulation of Ideas and the Vexed Situation of Early American Thought Michael Meranze
16. America and the Pacific: The View from the Beach Kate Fullagar
Part V. Institutions
17. Slavery, Captivity, and the Slave Trade in Colonial North America's Global Connections Gregory E. O'Malley
18. A Maritime World Elizabeth Mancke
19. Antislavery in America, 1760–1820: Comparisons, Contours, Contexts Christopher Leslie Brown
20. Women, Gender, Families, and States Heather Miyano Kopelson
21. Empires and the Boundaries of Religion Katherine Carté
Part VI. Revolutions
22. Independence and Union: Imperfect Unions in Revolutionary Anglo-America Daniel Hulsebosch
23. Atlantic Revolutions Janet Polasky
24. Citizenship James Sidbury
25. The United States and the Americas Caitlin Fitz
Index.

Subject Areas: Diplomacy [JPSD], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], History of the Americas [HBJK]