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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Atlantic World"”.
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Creek diplomacy in an imperial Atlantic world
<p>"Creek Diplomacy in an Imperial Atlantic World," argues that Creek leaders saw opportunities for Creek peoples to play an important political and economic role in the Atlantic world even while the Confederacy itself was still forming. This study explores Creek participation in the Atlantic world …
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‘Heathenism’ in the Protestant Atlantic World, c. 1558 - c. 1700
… precepts of English Protestantism in the Atlantic world between c. 1558 and c. 1700. Building upon recent scholarly developments in the cultural history of unbelief and the global history of Protestantism, the dissertation investigates language as a fundamental bridge between theology and …
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Prodigal sons: Indigenous missionaries in the British Atlantic world, 1640--1780
… missionaries in the early modern British Atlantic world. While scholars have generally accepted the convention that most missionaries were white Europeans who knew little about the native peoples they were trying to convert, there were practical and theological explanations for why native …
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The American revolution and popular loyalism in the British Atlantic world
… within the broader context of the British Atlantic world. It examines how the war and the revolutionary ideology affected the ways in which Britons living throughout the Atlantic world understood and articulated their loyalty to Great Britain. The American Revolution directly challenged the …
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Languages, Translation, and Encounters in the Seventeenth-Century North Atlantic World
Early modern migrations to the New World and transatlantic travel presented new challenges and opportunities for translingual practices. Spotlighting encounters between Indigenous people and settlers from England and France, my thesis investigates how languages functioned and were perceived in the …
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The origins of American history in the early modern English Atlantic world
… negotiate, and contest the terms of a developing Atlantic empire. In doing so, the English created a vision of America to compete with the dominant Spanish narrative by the end of the seventeenth century.</p><p>The existence of America gave the English an opportunity to explore the prospect of …
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Operating Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815
… Outside of Empire: Trading Citizenship in the Atlantic World, 1783-1815, looks at markets and ships as spaces for negotiation between merchants and the state. The dissertation follows the experiences of former British colonists in America who won independence and then immediately tried to find …
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Moved by the Spirit: Evangelical Presbyterian Woman in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… society decades before the famous transatlantic revivals of the eighteenth-century. Although many aspects of those revivals have been examined, such as the Holy Fairs, historians and scholars have largely overlooked the extensive body of memoirs and accounts featuring Scottish …
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The Maritime Archaeology of West Africa in the Atlantic World: Investigations at Elmina, Ghana
… and situate it within the broader sphere of the Atlantic World. This geographical and chronological construction, encompassing Africa, Europe and the Americas and spanning the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, can be considered an example of the longue dureé as defined by the Annales school, …
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The reputation of George Buchanan (1506-82) in the British atlantic world before 1832
abstract available: p.2
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Ambattar: Unfreedom, mobility, and women’s reproductive labor in the North Atlantic world, 750-1050
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Engineering Tolerance: Origins of Multicultural Education Policies in the Atlantic World from 1941 to 1988
… the United Kingdom and comparators in the Atlantic World, with the United Kingdom as a locus for the greater transnational development of multicultural education policies, will be an original contribution to the discipline. The examination of this thesis was a transnational one that tracked …
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Theater and Empire: A History of Assumptions in the English-Speaking Atlantic World, 1700-1860"
It was no coincidence that commercial theater, a market society, the British middle class, and the "first" British Empire arose more or less simultaneously. In the seventeenth century, the new market economic paradigm became increasingly dominant, replacing the old feudal economy. Theater …
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Freedom’s edge: Enslaved people, manumission, and the law in the eighteenth-century South Atlantic world
… Edge” explores how enslaved people in the South Atlantic world engaged with the law to achieve their manumission, or legal freedom. Drawing on freedom letters, petitions, legal suits, and other kinds of evidence from the eighteenth century, my analysis focuses on enslaved peoples’ social …
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… centers on the development of piracy in the Atlantic world. Contrary to popular opinion, not all pirates were illiterate thugs. Many wrote about their experiences, and their narratives were immensely popular among early modern readers. I focus on the generic choices pirate-authors made as …
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Little short of national murder: Forced migration and the making of diasporas in the Atlantic world, 1745--1865
… tool in the construction of the Anglo-American Atlantic World. British officials used removal to secure the empire, ridding the realm of Catholic menaces, black insurgents, challenges to the throne and the brutal conflicts between English colonists and Native Americans. American leaders, after …
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Behold These English Dogs!: Englishmen in the Atlantic World Before the Holy Office of the Inquisition, 1560-1630
… of Spain which challenged his Grand Strategy for World domination. Elizabeth’s status as a heretic provoked Philip to use the Spanish Inquisition’s severity against all Englishmen who served the heretical Queen. The Inquisition’s actions eventually also led to the attempted invasion of England by …
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
… of lived Christian traditions in the black Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has only partly included these competing constructions of Christianity in their account of marginalized and marooned peoples. This project will do three things. First …
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Skin Color and Social Practice: The Problem of Race and Class Among New Orleans Creoles and Across the South, 1718-1862
… context of the North American continent and the Atlantic World—the space within which these people actually lived. In so doing, it shows that New Orleans, and its free colored population did not develop in a cultural, legal, or intellectual vacuum. Like elsewhere in North and Central America, the …
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All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison (1763-1854)
… dissertation investigates the archaeology of Atlantic world wars and slavery on the island of Dominica during the Age of Revolution (c. 1774-1848). Using archival and archaeological evidence from households at the Cabrits Garrison occupied by lower status personnel in the British army, …
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