Revised February 2005
Cathy Matson
History Department/UD
Readings in Atlantic World Economy and Culture
Journals, collections, websites, seminars:
Itinerario – some articles are in PDF format for printing
AHR, 2000
WMQ, April 1993
Oxford History of the British Empire, first 2 vols. (2000); and see
WMQ review by Bernard Bailyn – some chapters are listed below. See work
especially of Price, Beckels, Sheridan, Canny, Pagden, etc.
Cambridge Economic History of the U.S., (Vol. 1, 1998).
****Harvard University Seminar in the Atlantic World -- see website
for information about ongoing seminars and applications for attendance,
as well as printable seminar papers.
***NYU Seminar in the Atlantic World—see website for information
Transatlantic Studies Association (and its Journal)
H-Atlantic (see me for how to subscribe -- it's free)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual
Record (http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/) -- Jerome Handler,
comp.
Dereck Aldcroft and Anthony Sutcliffe, eds., Europe in the International
Economy, 1500-2000 (Cheltenham, 1999), see essay by Jan L. Van Zanden and
Edwin Horlings on pre-industrial development 1500-1800, chapter 1.
Thomas Benjamin, Timothy D. Hall, and David E. Rutherford, eds., The
Atlantic World in the Age of Empire (2001) -- short reader of reprinted essays
on various empires in West.
James Tracy, ed., The Rise of Merchant Empires, 1350-1750; articles by
C. Rahn Phillips, Niels Steensgaard, Paul Butel, Larry Neal, F. Mauro, etc.
Idem., Political Econoomy of Merchant Empires
John McCusker, Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World (1997)
McCusker and Kenneth Morgan, eds., The Early Modern Atlantic Economy:
Essays on Transatlantic Enterprise (2001), see esp. articles by Shammas,
McCusker, Engerman.
William and Mary Quarterly, 2001, Forum on Trans-Atlantic Slavery and
Slave Trade -- numerous articles.
William Phillips and Carla Rahn Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher
Columbus (1992).
Karen Kupperman, ed., America in European Consciousness (1995)
Robert Forster, ed., European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800
(1997), many articles – N. Davis, Carolyn Fick, etc.
Joseph Inikori and Stanley Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade
. . . (1992)
Nicholas Canny, ed., Europeans on the Move: Studies in European Migration,
1500-1800 (1994).
Christine Daniels, ed., Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries
in the New World (2002).
Ida Altman and James Horn, eds., To Make America (1991) – many articles,
see listings below.
Hilary Beckles and Varene Shepard, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the
Atlantic World (1999).
Judy Bieber, ed., Plantation Societies in the Era of European Expansion
(1997), esp. for different commodities.
"Imperial (Re) Visions: Brazil and the Portuguese Seaborne Empire,"
conference November 2002 -- many good papers, esp. reconsidering Boxer's
view
"Creole Cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean," conference April
1995 at UD, many good papers
NUSSBAUM, Felicity, ed. _The Global Eighteenth Century_ (Johns Hopkins,
2003)
KLOOSTER, Wim, and Padula, Alfred. _The Atlantic World: Essays in Slavery,
Migration, and Imagination_ (Prentice-Hall, 2004)
Theory, Methodology (see also Internal Europe, below)
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery, 1944 (reprinted many times)
Thesis is still being debated from many sides; keep watching for articles
in economic history and Caribbean history in particular.
Gale Stokes, The Fates of Human Societies: A Review of Recent Macrohistories,
American Historical Review, April 2001.
David Armitge and Joyce Chaplin, two papers from Atlantic Studies
Seminar at McNeil, “Atlantic History: Not Waving but Drowning?”; and “Three
Concepts of Atlantic History,” 2004
Nicholas Canny, Writing Atlantic History: or, Reconfiguring the History
of Colonial British America (JAH, Dec. 1999), 1093-1114.
Jean Beaudrillard, The Mirror of Production, trans. And intro., Mark Poster,
Telos, 1975.
Colin Kidd, British Identities before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Natinhood
in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (CUP: 1999)
Richard Grassby, The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Rev.
(Lanham, Md., 1999)
David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some are so Rich
and Some are so Poor, (London, 1998), and
Review by Peer Vries, "Culture, Clocks, and Comparative Costs," Itinerario,
vol. 22, 1998, #4.
Review by Joel Mokyr, Eurocentricity Triumphant, AHR, Oct. 1999
Bernard Bailyn, The Idea of Atlantic History, Itinerario, 20, 1996,
#1.
Andre Gunder Frank, ReOrient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (Berkeley,
1998).
Review by Peer Vries, "Should we really ReOrient?", Itinerario, 1998
And reply by Frank, Itinerario, 1998
Philip D. Curtin, The Rise of the Plantation Complex
Idem., The West and the World: The European Challenge and the Overseas
Response in the Age of Empire (2000)
Sushill Chaudhury & Michael Morineau, Merchants, Companies, and
Trade: Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era (CUP,1999)
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Thomas D. Hall, Rise and Demise, Comparing
World Systems (1997).
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World System. (3 volumes)
Elizabeth Mancke, Another British America: A Canadian Model for the
Early Modern
British Empire, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (1997)
David Armitage, Greater Britain: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?
AHR, April 1999
Idem., Three Concepts of Atlantic History, paper from workshop on
the British Atlantic, Harvard, 2001.
Nicholas Canny, The Ideology of English Colonization: From Ireland
to America, WMQ, 1973, 575-98
Idem., Writing Atlantic History: Or, Reconfiguring The History of
Colonial British Ameica, JAH, 1999, 1093-1114.
Steven Stern, “Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World System in the
Perspective of Latin America and the Caribbean, in F. Cooper, et al., Confronting
Historical Paradigms, 1993.
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History – esp. the introduction.
Aris Dirlek, many useful passages on postcolonialism
Marshall Sahlins, article in TLS, June 2, 1995, is an overview of
his book, How Natives Think
James Axtell, The Moral Significance of 1492, Historian, 1993, 17-28.
Silvio Zavala, A General View of the Colonial History of the New World,
AHR, 66 (1961), 913-929.
JGA Pocock, The New British History in Atlantic Perspective: An Antipodean
Commentary, AHR, 1999, 490-500.
See Brenner, below
Jane Ohlmeyer, Seventeenty-century Ireland and the New British and
Atlantic Histories, AHR, 1999, 446-462.
Michel R. Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production
of History, Boston, 1995.
Jack Greene, statement on doing AW history at JHU
Ronald Seavoy, Origins and Growth of the Global Economy: From the
Fifteenth Century Onward (2003)
David Ormrod, The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands
in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1700 (2003). – and reviews
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System -- three volumes published
....
Steve Stern, "Feudalism, Capitalism, and the World-System in the Perspective
of Latin America and the Caribbean, American Historical Review, 93 (Oct
1988), 829-872.
Robert Brenner, "The Social Basis of English Commercial Expansion,
1550-1650," Journal of economic History, 32 (Mar 1972), 361-384.
Brenner, "The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism," Past and Present,
97 (Nov 1982), 16-113;
and the extensive debate around this "Brenner Debate," also in the
pages of Past and Present, and subsequently published.
Internal Europe
Karl Gunnar Persson, Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900 (CUP, 2000).
John Benson and Laura Ugolini, eds., A Nation of Shopkeepers: Five Centuries
of British Retailing (2003)
Peter Stearns, The Industrial Revoluion: A Teaching Challenge, in OAH
Magazine of History, 2000.
Gregory Clark, The Great Escape: The Industrial Revolution in Theory and
History, on internet, Abstracts in Economic History, 2003.
Meir Kohn, of Dartmouth, many different papers available on internet,
on economic history. E.g.,” Merchant associations in pre-industrial Europe,”
2003.
Lynn Hollen Lees, The Solidarities of Strangers: The English Poor Laws
and the People, 1700-1948 (CUP, 1998)
Keith Wrightson, Earthly Necessities: Economic Lies in Early Modern Britain
(New Haven, 2000)
Richard Grassby, The Idea of Capitalism before the Industrial Revolution
(Lanham, MD, 1999)
Steven King, Poverty and Welfare In England, 1700-1850: A Regional Perspective
(New York, 2000)
Charles Wilson, England's Apprenticeship, 1603-1763; and The Dutch
Republic.
Violet Barbour, Capitalism in Amsterdam in the 17th Century.
C. W. Cole, French Mercantilism, 1683-1700.
Peter Burke, Venice and Amsterdam: A Study of 17th Century Elites
(London, 1974).
Jan de Vries and Ad Van der Woude, The First Modern Economy: Success,
Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815 (Cambridge, 1997).
Jan de Vries, The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age (1974)
And The Crisis in Europe (1976)
Joyce Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England,
Princeton, 1978.
Keith Thomas, "Work and Leisure in Pre-Industrial Society," Past and Present,
1964, 50-66.
Francois Crouzet, The First Industrialists, . . . (Cambridge, 1985).
David Armitage, The Empire of Great Britain: England, Scotland, and Ireland,
c. 1540-1660.
Linda Colley, Britons, (Yale, 1992).
Maxine Berg, "Political Economy and the Principles of Manufacture, 1700-1800,"
in Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory (1983), and six other
essays by M. Berg, P. Hudson and M. Sonenscher. (CUP, 1983). and idem.,
The Age of Manufactures (NY, 1986).
R. Braun, "Early Industrialization and Demographic Change in the Canton
of Zurich," in Charles Tilly, ed., Historical Studies of Changing Fertility,
(1978).
Robert Brenner, "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in
Pre-Industrial Europe," P&P, 70 (1976); and collection called The Brenner
Debate, many essays from P&P responding to Brenner.
S. D. Chapman, "Industrial Capital before the Industrial Rev: An Analysis
of the Assets of a Thousand Textile Entrepreneurs ca. 1730-1750," in N.
B. Harte and K. G. Ponting, eds., Textile History and Ec. History, (1973).
L.A. Clarkson, Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of Industrialization?
(Macmillan, London, 1985).
D. C. Colman, [many essays, listed in Clarkson]; see esp. "Proto-Industrialization:
A Concept Too Many," in Ec. Hist. Review, 2nd ser., 36 (1983).
Jan De Vries, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750, (1976).
Maurice Dobb, Studies in the Development of Capitalism, (1946).
Gay Gullickson, "Agriculture and Cottage Industry: Redefining the
Causes of Proto-Industralization," JEH, 43 (1983).
Rodney Hilton, et al., The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism,
(1978).
Pamela Horn, Life and Labour in Rural England, 1760-1850, (1987).
Trevor Aston, ed., Crisis in Europe, 1560-1660, (1965).
R. Houston and K. Snell, "Proto-Industrialization? Cottage Industry, Social
Change, and Industrial Revolution," Historical Journal, 27 (1984) --
and the biblio here too.
Pat Hudson, "Proto-Industrialization: The Case of the West Riding Wool
Textile Industry in the 18th and early 19th Cents.," Hist. Workshop,
12 (1981).
S. Hymer and Samuel Resnick, "A Model of an Agrarian Ec. with Nonagricultural
Activities," Amer. Ec. Review, 59 (1969).
E. L. Jones, Agriculture and the Industrial Rev., (1974).
Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick and J. Schlumbohn, Industrialization before
Industrialization, (1981) -- and the biblio.
David Levine, Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism, (1977).
W. A. Lewis, "Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labor,"
in A. N. Agarwala and S. P. Singh, eds., The Ecs. of Underdevelopment,
(1958) -- sets out important form of the model.
Hans Medick, "The Proto-Industrial Family Economy . . .," Social History,
1 (1976).
Frank Mendels, "Proto-Industrialization: The First Phase of the Industrialization
Process," Journal of Ec. History, 32 (1972).
Joel Mokyr,Industrialization in the Low Countries, 1795-1850, (1976).
And idem., ed., The Economics of the Industrial Revolution, (London, 1985).
David Ormrod, English Grain Exports and the Structure of Agrarian
Capitalism, 1700-1760, Hull, 1985. -- good biblio, and review of the
debates.
William Parker and E. L. Jones, eds., European Peasants and their
Markets (1975) -- 8 essays, incl. another Mendels.
Joan Thirsk, The Rural Ec. of England: Collected Essays, (1984), esp.
"Industries in the Countryside."
Lorena Weatherill, Consumer Behavior and Material Culture in Britain,
1600-1760, Routledge, London, 1988.
E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance and Change, (London, 1988).
L. D. Schwarz, London in the age of industrialization, Entrepreneurs,
labour force and living conditions, 1700-1850, CUP, 1993.
Adrian Randall, Before the Luddites; Custom, Community, and Machinery
in the English Woollen Industry, 1776-1809, CUP, 1991.
Neil McKendrick, John Brewer, and J.H. Plumb, The Birth of a Consumer
Society in Early Modern England, Bloomington, Ind., 1982.
John Brewer and Roy Porter, eds., Consumption and the World of Goods,
1993, esp. chapter by John Styles on opposition to consumer revolution;
and Amanda Vickery, on women’s consumption in England; and Jan de Vries
on purchasing power.
This is Vol. 1 in the UCLA/Huntington project on consumption. Other
volumes are: Early Modern Conceptions of Property (1994); and The Consumption
of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text (1995). For AW studies, Vol.
1 is best.
See review by Craig Clunas in AHR December 1999, of all volumes and
many methodologies.
Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds, 1999
Karl Gunnar Persson, Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900 (2000)
Grant McCracken, Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic
Character of Consumer Goods and Activities (1988)
R. H. Tawney, The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century, London,
1912.
Robert Brenner, "Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in
Pre-Industrial Europe," P&P, 1975. Replies are by Postan, J. Hatcher,
Pat Croot, David Parker, Heide Wunder, E. LeRoy Ladurie, Guy Bois, R. H.
Hilton, J. P. Cooper, in #78, 79, 80 (1978).
Robert Brenner, The Agrarian Roots of European Capitalism, P&P,
97 (1982), 16-113.
Alan Everitt, Farm Labourers, in Joan Thirsk, ed., The Agrarian History
of England and Wales, IV, 1500-1640 Cambridge, 1967, 396-465.
Keith Wrightson and David Levine, Poverty and Piety in an English
Village . . . New York, 1979.
Carole Shammas, The World Women Knew: Women Workers in the North of England
during the late Seventeenth Century, in R. S. Dunn and M. M. Dunn, eds.,
The World of William Penn, Phil., 1986, 99-116.
D. G. Hey, The Rural Metalworkers of the Sheffield Region, Leicester,
1972
R. Braun, "Early Industrialization and Demographic Change in the Canton
of Zurich," in Charles Tilly, ed., Historical Studies of Changing Fertility,
(1978).
S. D. Chapman, "Industrial Capital before the Industrial Rev: An Analysis
of the Assets of a Thousand Textile Entrepreneurs ca. 1730-1750," in N. B.
Harte and K. G. Ponting, eds., Textile History and Ec. History, (1973).
D. C. Colman, [many essays, listed in Clarkson]; see esp. "Proto-Industrialization:
A Concept Too Many," in Ec. Hist. Review, 2nd ser., 36 (1983).
Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without a History (1982).
J. H. Parry, The Establishment of the European Hegemony, 1415-1715 (1966);
Idem., The Age of Reconnaissance.
E. Rice and A. Grafton, The Foundations of Early Modern Europe
J. H. Elliott, The Old World and the New
See works by Pierre Bordieu, Fredric Jameson, and Michael Walzer on consumption
and identity.
Michael Zakim -- two articles on consumption and circulation of goods,
and consequences for "culture" in AW -- AHR, 1999 is best one -- "Sartorial
Ideologies. . . ."
Morgan and McCusker, eds., (see collections, above)
Jack Greene, Arenas of Asiatic Plunder, chapter from Speaking of Empire,
2003 paper from NYU seminar on AW.
[books on food: Caviar; Story of Corn; Salt; Wheat; Indigo; etc.
Comparative and Combined Perspectives (all parts of
the Atlantic World) (see collections, above, and separate sections below,
too)
[Many of the titles in the Theory section, and the Collections
section above, are comparative as well]
Philip Curtin, Cross-Cultural Trade in World History (Cambridge, 1984).
Philip Curtin, The World and the West.
Elizabeth John, Storms Brewed in Other Men’s Worlds, Spanish and French
in the Southwest, 1540-1795 (1975; 1981).
Lyle McAlister, Spanish and Portuguese in the New World, 1492-1706
K. G. Davies, The North Atlantic World in the 17th Century, 1974.
J. H. Elliott, The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 (1970).
James Tracy, ed., The Political Economy of Merchant Empires . . . 1350-1750
(see esp. his intro.) (1991)
Idem., ed., The Rise of Merchant Empires (1350-1750), 1990.
Peggy Liss, Atlantic Empires, The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826
G. V. Scammell, The First Imperial Age: European Overseas Expansion,
1400-1715 (1989).
John Coatsworth, Notes on the Comparative Ec. History of Latin America
and the United States, in Walther L. Bernecker and Hans Werner Tobler, eds.,
Development and Underdevelopment in America (1993), 10-30.
Marc Egnal, New World Economies, The Growth of the 13 Colonies and Early
Canada (1998).
Christine Daniels, ed., Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in
the New World, 1500-1820 (2001).
Canny and Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
(1987).
Stuart Schwartz, ed., Implicit Understandings (1994) many articles; see
esp. Eduardo Vallejo, The Conquest of the Canary Islands; and Peter Hulme,
Tales of Distinction: European Ethnography and the Caribbean.
Saskia Sassen, ed., Global Networks, Linked Cities (2002) – includes numerous
AW ports
Lost Colonies Conference, March 2004 – about 20 papers on CD ROM. Comparative
perspectives on 1600s, numerous failed colonies throughout AW
GOMES, Flavio. "Other Black Atlantic Borders: Escape Routes, Mocambos,
and Fears of Sedition in Brazil and French Guiana," _Nieuw West-Indische
Gids_ 77
(2003): 253-287
DESSENS, Nathalie. _Myths of the Plantation Society: Slavery in the American
South and the West Indies_ (Florida, 2004)
Africa, Slavery – important work involving comparative
perspectives:
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/black_voices.cfm
George Brooks, Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender,
and Religious Observance from the 16th to the 18th Century (2003)
Joseph Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England (2002)
John Thornton, The Kingdom of Kongo in Africa and America, NYU paper, 2004.
Bruce Mouser, ed., A Slaving Voyage to Africa and Jamaica: The Log of the
"Sandown," 1793-1794, Bloomington, 2002.
Stanley Engerman, Slavery at Different Times and Places, AHR, April 2000
David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade, 2nd ed., 2002
Isidore Okpewho, et al., eds., The African Diaspora: African Origins and
New World Identitites (Bloomington, 1999)
Alison Games, Madagascar, 1635-1650: Atlantic Constraints on Indian Ocean
Plantations, NYU paper, 2004 (see me for copy)
Christopher Ehret, Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800 (Univ. Press
of Virginia, 2002)
James Rawley, London, Metropolis of the Slave Trade, with foreward by David
Eltis, Columbia: 2003.
Johannes Postma, The Atlantic Slave Trade, Westport, CT, 2003.
David Eltis, et al., compilers, The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: A Database
on CD-ROM (Cambridge, 1999)
Philip Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex (1998)
David Northrup, ed., The Atlantic Slave Trade, 2nd ed., (2002).
David Eltis, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas (CUP, 2000)
Articles in Ida Altman and James Horn, eds., To Make America . . . (1991).
Charles Verlinden, The Beginnings of Modern Colonization (1970)
John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Formation of the Atlantic
World, 1400-1680 (1998).
Idem., Teaching Africa in an Atlantic Perspective, RHR, 2000, 123-134.
Robin Law and Kristin Mann, West Africa in the Atlantic Community
. . . WMQ, April 1999, 307-34.
Carole Shammas, Black Women’s Work and the Evolution of Plantation
Society in Virginia, Labor History, 1985, 5-28.
Marietta Morrissey, Women’s Work, Family Formation, and Reproduction
among Caribbean Slaves, {Braudel Center} Review, 1986, 339-67.
Cultivation and Culture, ed., Morgan and Berlin (1993): articles
by Geggus and Gaspar, etc.
Patrick Manning, Slavery and African Life
Martin Klein, The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Societies
of the Western Sudan, in Inikori and Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave
Trade . . . (1992).
F. D. Fage, “African Societies and the Atlantic Slave Trade,” Past
and Present, 125 (1989), 97-115.
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Philip Curtin, the Plantation Complex
Special issue of WMQ, 2001 – articles by D. B. Davis, David Eltis,
Barbara Solow, David Richardson, Herbert Klein, Stanley Engerman, David Geggus,
Lorena Walsh, Stephen Behrendt, Trevor Burnard, Kenneth Morgan, Ralph Austin,
Bailyn, etc.
Robin Blackburn, The Making of New World Slavery, 1492-1800 (1997)
Ivor Wilks, Forests of Gold (on origins of a Creole and middle-class
Africa).
David Ryden, Does Decline Make Sense? The West Indies Sugar Economy
and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade, JIH, Winter 2001
See readings on revolutions in the Atlantic World – Judith Kafka;
R. Darrell Meadows, David Geggus, Patrick O’Brien, Andrew O’Shaughnessey,
Peggy Liss, Franklin Knight, etc.
Darlene Clark Hine and Barry Gaspar, eds., More than Chattel
Lorena Walsh, From Calabar to Carter's Grove
[see Lorena’s letters from Africa 2002, 2003, 2004]
Verene Shepherd & Hilary Beckles, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the
Atlantic World (2000)
Seymour Drescher, The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery
in British Emancipation (2002).
Linda Heywood, Memory through Space and Time: Queen Njinga ande Remembrance
in Angola and Brazil, paper from NYU seminar in AW, 2004
Joseph Inikori, Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England
. . . (2002).
Robert Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
(Basic Books, 2002)
GOULD, Philip. _Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World_ (Harvard, 2003)
HUFFMAN, Alan. _Mississippi in Africa: The Saga of the Slaves of Prospect
Hill Plantation and their Legacy in Liberia Today_ (Gotham, 2004)
MORGAN, Jennifer L. _Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New
World Slavery_ (Penn, 2004)
SPARKS, Randy. _The Two Princes of Calabar_ (Harvard, 2004)
BURNARD, Trevor. _Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood
and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World_ (UNC, 2004)
The British Atlantic World
The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume 1, ed. Nicholas
Canny, The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enerprise to the Close of
the Seventeenth Century, OUP, 1998; essays by Canny, Pagden, Armitage,
Horn, DeJohn Anderson, Beckles, Mancall, Landsman, Weir, J. Israel, Zahedieh,
etc.
Volume 2, ed. P. J. Marshall, The Eighteenth Century, OUP, 1998; essays
by Marshall, Horn, O'Brien, Price, Steele, Greene, Richard Johnson, John
Shy, S. Conway, Richter, Sherican, P. Morgan, etc.
Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds (only first chapter)
Nicholas Canny, Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World
(1988).
David Hancock, Commerce and Conversation in the 18th Century Atlantic:
The Invention of
Madeira Wine, J. Interdiscipli. Hist., Autumn, 1998
Hancock, "The British Atlantic World . . . 1615-1815," Itinerario, 1999,
#2.
Jacob Price, Perry of London . . . 1615-1753 (Harvard, 1992).
Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies, Ithaca, 1973.
D. A. Farnie, The Commercial Empire of the Atlantic, 1607-1783, Ec.
Hist. Review, 15 (1962), 205-218.
Ken Morgan, Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth-Century,
English Historical Review (1992), 626-650.
David Eltis, The Relative Importance of Slaves and Commodities in
the Atlantic Trade of Seventeenth-Century Africa, Jnl. Of African History,
1994, p.237-249.
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves,
Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000).
Jane Ohlmeyer, Seventeenth-Century Ireland and the New British and
Atlantic Histories, American Historical Review (1999), 446-62.
A. Pagden, European Encounters with the New World
Bernard Bailyn and Philip Morgan, [reader]
Eric Halpern, ed., Empire and Others, esp. essay by Philip Morgan.
Sheryllynne Haggerty, Business Networks and Family Ties: The View from
Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica, 2003 Harvard Seminar paper;
Idem., Men and Women of the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Trading Community
[book proposal and draft of chapter 1]
The Caribbean in the Atlantic World (see individual empires, too) (includes
Brazil)
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Haitian Revolution, Impact on the Americas,
address to the third world plantation conference, 1989; and idem., An Unthinkable
History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-event,” in Silencing the Past: Power
and the Production of History. 1995
Selwyn Carrington, The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave
Trade, 1775-1810 (2002). [and review by Matt Childs]
Paul Lachance, A Refugee’s Perception of St. Domingue and Louisiana
Creoles. .. . 1995 paper from Creole Cultures conference, UD
Natalie Zacek, White Class Formation in the English West Indies .
. . 1632-1800, 1995 paper from Creole Cultuers conference, UD
Barbara Bush, Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838 (Indiana,
1990)
Marietta Morrissey, Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification
in the Caribbean (Kansas, 1989)
Gilbert Din, The Irish Mission to West Florida, Louisiana History,
XII (1971), 315-334
Donald Akenson, Montserrat: If the Irish Ruled the World
Julianne Maher, Travel Diaries, Missionary Accounts, and Land Surveys
. . . . French Caribbean, 1995 paper from Creole Cultures Conference, UD
Sydney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Hilary Beckles and Varene Sheard, eds., Caribbean Slavery in the Atlantic
World (1999)
Richard Dunn, Sugar and Slaves (1974)
Special issue of WMQ, January 2001, on trans-Atlantic Slavery and
slave trade, with essays by David Brion Davis, Robert Forbes, Barbara Solow,
David Eltis, David Richardson, Herbert Klein, Stanley Engerman, David Geggus,
Lorena Walsh, Stephen Behrendt, Trevor Burnard, Kenneth Morgan, Ralph Austen,
Barnard Bailyn
David Geggus, The Haitian Revolution, in The Modern Caribbean, ed.
Franklin Knight and Colin Palmer, 1989, 21-50.
Carolyn Fick, The French Revolution in Saint Domingue: . . . ., in
A Turbulent Time . . . ed. David Barry Gaspar and David Geggus, 1997, 51-75.
Fick, The Making of Haiti: The San Domingo Revolution From Below,
Knoxville, 1990.
John Garrigus, Redrawing the Colour Line: Gender and the Social Constructin
of Race in Pre-Revolutionary Haiti, Jnl. Of Caribn Hist, 30 (1996), 28-50.
Garrigus, Ph.D., A Struggle for Respect: The Free-Coloreds of Pre-Revolutionary
St. Domingue, 1760-1769, JHU, 1988
Gaspar and Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Rev. and the
Greater Caribbean. 1997.
David Geggus, The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic
World. Columbia, SC, 2001.
David Geggus, Racial Equality, Slavery, and Colonial Secession during
the Constituent Assembly,” AHR, 94 (1989), 1290-1308.
David Geggus, Slavery, War and Revolution. OUP, 1982.
Mats Lundahl, Toussaint L’Ouverture and the War Economy of St. Domingue,
1796-1802, Slavery and Abolition, 6 (1985), 122-138.
Julius Scott, The Common Wind: Currents of Afro-American Communication
in the Era of the Haitian Revolution, PhD, Duke, 1986.
Scott, Crisscrossing Empires: Shops, Sailores, and Resistance in the
Lesser Antilles in the 18th century, in Paquette and Engerman, The Lesser
Antilles, pp. 128-143, 1996.
Franklin Knight, The Haitian Revolution, AHR, Feb. 2000, 103-15.
Idem., The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (1990)
Stewart King, Blue Coat or Lace Collar: The Free Coloreds of Pre-Revolutionary
St. Domingue (2001)
Colin Kidd, The Varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic World,
1689-1800, p.250-286 of his British Identities before Nationalism (1999).
Barry Higman, The Economic and Society Development of the British
West Indies, from Settlement to 1850, chapter 7 of CEHUS (1996)
David Barry Gaspar, Sugar Cultivation and Slave Life in Antigua before
1800, in Cult and Cult.
Vincent Harlow, A History of Barbados, 1625-1685 (Oxford, 1926).
Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean,
1492-1797 (1986).
Richard Pares, West India Fortune
Idem., Merchants and Planters
Kenneth Andrews, The Spanish Caribbean: Trade and Plunder (1978).
Riva Berleant-Schiller, article in WMQ, 1989, on Leeward Islands, French
and British presence there, and Montserrat's early white labor.
Roderick McDonald, ed., West Indies Accounts, Essays on the History of
the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy (1996) -- many good essays
-- and excellent bibliography
Andrew O'Shaughnessey, An Empire Divided . . . . British Caribbean
(2000)
Arthur Stinchcombe, Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment
(1995).
Robin Fabel, Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribbeans,
1759-1775 (2000).
William Claypole and John Robottom, Caribbean Story, 1980
Bailey Diffe, Foundations of the Portuguese Empire (see chapters on
Brazil)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
Robin Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848, London:Verso,
1988.
Joan Dyan, Haiti, History, and the Gods. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif.
Press, 1995.
Antonio Stevens-Arroyo, Cave of the Jaguar
Wm. Keegan, The People Who Discovered Columbus: The Prehistory of
the Bahamas (1992)
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Piracy:
Daniel Defoe, A General History of the Pyrates
{anon.}, Exquemelin and the Buccaneers of America
Thomas Astley, Voyages and Travels
Clinton Black, Pirates of the West Indies
N. Zahedieh, article in West Indies Connections, ed. Roderick McDonald
Lyon, on Red Sea Pirates
Richard Pennel, Bandits at Sea, 2001
Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Rediker and Linebaugh, relevant chapters of Many-Headed Hydra
Roy Ritchie, Captain Kidd and the Red Sea Pirates (1986).
Peter Galvin, Patterns of Pillage, a Geography of Caribbean-Based Piracy
in Spanish America, 1536-1718 (1996).
Philip Gosse, A History of Piracy (1946)
C.H. Haring, The Buccaneers of the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century
(1910; repr. 1966).
David Cordingly, Under the Black Flag (a popular study; 1995).
Kris Lane, Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 (1998).
Idem., Blood and Silver.
LANE, Kris. "Punishing the Sea Wolf: Corsairs and Cannibals in the Early
Modern Caribbean," _Nieuw West-Indische Gids_ 77 (2003): 201-220
North American economic culture before 1600
Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republic in
the Great Lakes Region (1991)
Teute, ed., Contact Points . . ., introduction on Native Americans,
Turner Thesis, and Richard White (1998)
Daniel Usner, Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange
Economy (1992)
Peter Mancall, Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper
Susquehanna, 1700-1800, Cornell, 1991
D. W. Meinig, The Shaping of America, . . . 1492-1800. Yale, 1990.
William Cronon, Changes in the Land (1983).
Alfred Crosby, Ecological Imperialism (1986)
Collection of articles, American Beginnings, ed. Harold Prins, et
al., 1994; articles by Prins, Children of Bluskap, Wabanaki Indians on the
Even of European Invations; and James Axtell, The Exploration of Norumbega.
Peter Wood, et al., eds., Powhattan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial
Southeast (1989)
Christopher Millet and George Hamell, "A New Perspective on Indian-White
Contact: Cultural Symbols and Colonial Trade, JAH, 73 (1986), 311-28
Neal Salisbury, Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the
Making of New England (1982)
Salisbury, The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming
of Europeans," WMQ, 1996, 435-58.
Ramon Gutierrez, The Pueblo Indian World in the Sixteenth Century,
in When Jesus Came . . . Stanford:1991, 3-36.
Special issue of WMQ, July 1996, on Iroquois
Natalie Zemon Davis, Iroquois Women, European Women, pp.593-621 of
Robert Forster, ed., European and Non-European Societies, 1450-1800 (1997);
And in same collection: Olive P. Dickason, European and Amerindians:
Some Comparative Aspects of Early Contact, pp.255-274.
Marshall Sahlins, How Natives Think --- About Captain Cook, For Example
(1995)
Patricia Galloway, Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700 (1995)
Jean M. O'Brien, Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity
in Natick, Mass., (1997)
Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern, eds., Empire and Others: British
Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1800 (1999) -- excellent essays
on many aspects of early native American life -- see overview of methodologies
by Philip Morgan, e.g.
Other work from 1980s and 1990s that bears on Atlantic World perspectives
and Native American Economic Culture: Daniel Richter; Ian Steele; Michael
McConnell; Tom Hatley; Jill Lepore; Claudio Saunt; Colin Calloway; Daniel
Mandell;
Elizabeth Mancke, Another British America: A Canadian Model for the Early
Modern British Empire, Jnl. Of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 1997, 1-36.
Philip Morgan, Encounters between British and “Indigenous” Peoples, c.
1500-c.1800,” in Halpern, ed., Empire and Others (Penn, 2001), chapter 3.
Greenblatt (see below)
Karen Kupperman, (pages on Roanoke)
The North Atlantic
Elsewhere throughout this list of readings are titles that pertain
to the North Atlantic region -- including the fisheries, Canada, Nova Scotia,
Maine, Acadia, Norumbega, etc. This region is distinctive, as many were,
and can be compared dramatically to the Caribbean, North American coastal
rim, etc.
See also Christopher Hodson, Conversations with Power: The Acadians’
Atlantic, 1755-1785, Harvard Seminar Paper, 2003
Iberia in the Atlantic World
Samuel Amaral, The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas: The Estancias of
Buenos Aires, 1785-1870 CUP:1998.
Richard Marshall, The Local Merchants of Prato: Small Entrepreneurs in
the Late Medieval Economy (JHU Press, 1999).
J. H. Parry, The Spanish Seaborne Empire (1966)
Carla Rahn Phillips and William D. Phillips, Jr., Spain's Golden Fleece
(1997); and Carla R. Phillips, Spanish Merchants and the Wool Trade in the
16th Century (1983).
Joyce Harmon, Trade and Privateering in Spanish Florida, 1732-1763 (1969).
David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in N. Amer. (Yale, 1992).
Victor Uribe-Uran, State and Society in Spanish America during the
Age of Revolution (2001)
Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World,
1991
Anthony Grafton, New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition
and the Shock of Discovery, Cambridge:1992
J. H. Elliott, The Old World and the New, 1492-1650 (repr. 1992).
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave, New York:1994
William and Carla Phillips, The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
Charles Gibson, Spain in America
Lyle McAlister (see above)
Stuart Schwartz, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society:
Bahia, 1550-1835
Miguel A. L. Quesada, Spain circa 1492: Social Values and Structures,
in Schwartz, ed., Implicit Understandings (see above) (1994), 96-133.
Roger Schlesinger, ed., In the Wake of Columbus: The Impact of the
New World on Europe, 1492-1650 (1996).
Chapters in Canny and Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity (above).
Richard Trexler, Iberian Experiences, in idem., Sex and Conquest:
Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas,
pp.38ff. (1995).
Franklin Knight, Slavery and Lagging Capitalism in the Spanish and
Portuguese American Empires, 1492-1713,” in Barbara Solow, ed., Slavery and
the Rise of the Atlantic System (1991), p.62-74.
Jeremy Baskes, Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation
of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca,
1750-1821 (2001)
Jay Kinsbruner on Spanish American revolutions
Peggy Liss and Franklin Knight – articles and books on 18th century
Spanish Atlantic.
Jane Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida (2000)
Kimberley Hanger, (see below)
Virginia Meacham Gould, The Free Creoles of Colore of the Antebellum
Gulf Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola . . . 1995 paper from Creole
Cultures conference, UD
David Weber, Gloria Ricci Lothrop, and Melinda Blade papers in OAH
Magazine of History, 2000 on Spanish frontier in North America
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Settling Upon the Seas, [Portugal in AW],
NYU AW Seminar paper, 2004.
GARZA CAVAJAL, Federico. _Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites
in Early Modern Spain and Mexico_ (Texas, 2004)
HERRERA, Robinson A. _Natives, Europeans, and Africans in Sixteenth-Century
Santiago de Guatemala_ (Texas, 2003)
PADRON, Ricardo. _The Spacious Word: Cartography, Literature, and Empire
in Early Modern Spain_ (Chicago, 2004
SWEET, James H. _Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion
in the Portuguese World, 1441-1770_ (UNC, 2003)
BENNETT, Herman L. _Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity,
and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640_ (Indiana, 2003)
France in the Atlantic World
Judith Miller, Mastering the Market: The State and the Grain Trade in
Northern France, 1700-1860 (CUP: 1999)
Jacques Mathieu, Le Commerce entre la Nouvelle-France et les Antilles
au XVIIIe siecle (1981)
Howard Fergus, Monserrat: History of a Caribbean Island (1994)
Paul Butel, article on French and Antilles, 1600s-1750s, in Tracy collection
(1990)
Colin Coates, The Metamorphosis of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec
(2000)
Peter Moogk, La Nouvelle France . . . A Cultural History (2000)
Kevin C. Robbins, City on the Ocean Sea: LaRochelle, 1530-1650: Urban
Society, Religion, and Politics on the French Atlantic Frontier (Leiden
and NY, 1997).
Denys Delage, The Fur Trade of New France, in Thomas Benjamin, et al.,
The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire (1999)
Allan Greer, The People of New France (1999)
Bernard Moitt, Women & Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635-1848.
(Indiana, 2001).
Clarence Gould, Trade Between the Windward Islands and the Continental
Colonies of the French Empire, MVHR, 1939, 473-90
John Singler, articles on the French Caribbean
John McGrath, Polemic and History in French Brazil, 1555-1560, Sixteenth-Century
Journal, 1996.
M.R. Trouillot, article on sugar and coffee, in Cultivation and Culture.
Idem., many journal articles – focus on Antillies
Paquet and Wallot, article in Colonial Identity collection, 1989, above
Dale Tomich, Slavery in Martinique in the French Caribbean.
Idem., The Other Face of Slave Labor [on provision grounds], in Slavery
in the Circuit of Sugar: Martinique and the World Economy (JHU, 1990).
R. Darrell Meadows, Engineering Exile: Social Networks and the French
Atlantic Community, 1789-1809, French Historical Studies, (2001), 67-102.
David B. Gaspar and David P. Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French
Revolution and the Greater Caribbean (1997).
R. Stein, The French Sugar Business in the 18th Century
Leslie Choquette, Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in
the Peopling of French Canada (1997).
Idem., article in Altman and Horn collection (see above), To Make America,
p.131-71.
Christian H. de Lemp, article in ibid., on French indentures in Antilles,
p.172-203.
Riva Berleant-Schiller, Free Labor and the Economy in 17th Century Monserrat,
WMQ, July 1989, 539ff.
Daniel Usner, Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy
(1992)
Joseph G. Tregle, Jr., "Creoles and Americans, in Creole New Orleans .
. . ed. By Arnold R. Hirsch and Joseph Logsden (1992).
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: the Development
of Afro-Creole Culture in the 18th Century (1992)
Kimberly S. Hanger, Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society
in Colonial New Orleans (1997).
Christian Huetz de Lemps, Indentured Servants Bound for the French Antilles
in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, pp.172-203 of Colin Calloway,
ed., New Worlds: Indians, Europeans, and the remaking of early America (1997).
David Geggus, Indigo and Slavery in Saint-Domingue, Plantation Society
in the Americas, 5 (1998), 189-204. (see article about sugar and coffee
in St. Domingue, in Cult and Cult).
Laurent Dubois, The Price of Liberty: Victor Hughes and the Administration
of Freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794-1798, WMQ (1999), 363-392.
Robert Paquette, Revolutionary St. Domingue in the Making of Territorial
Louisiana, in Gaspar and Geggus, eds., A Turbulent Time: The French Revolutin
and the Greater Caribbean (1997).
Leslie Choquette, Frenchmen into Peasants, 1997.
For work in French, see: Alain Buffon; Gabriel Debien; Gaston Martin
Matthew Laird, The Price of Empire: Anglo-French Rivalry for the Great
Lakes Fur Trades, 1700-1760 -- Ph.D, W&M, 1995
Peter N. Moogk, Building a House in New France (on craftsmen)
[see other Moogk, too]
Bernard Moitt, Gender and Slavery, Women and the Plantation Experience
in the Caribbean before 1848, in Born out of Resistance, On Caribbean Cultural
Creativity (Utrecht, 2001), 110-125.
Silvia Marzagalli, The Establishment of a Transatlantic Trade Network:
Bordeauz and the US, 1783-1815, Harvard Seminar Paper, 2003
Kenneth J. Banks, Chasing Empire across the Sea: Communications and the
State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763 (2002)
Howard Fergus, Montserrat: History of a Caribbean Colony (2004)
PRITCHARD, James. _In Search of Empire: The French in the Americas, 1630-1730_
(Cambridge, 2004)
DUBOIS, Laurent. _A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation
in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (UNC, 2004)
The Dutch in the Atlantic World
Cornelis Goslinga, The Dutch in the Caribbean, 1580-1680
Wim Klooster, Illicit Riches, Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648-1795,
1998.
Jonathan Israel, Dutch Primacy in World Trade (1989)
Violet Barbour, Dutch and English Merchant Shipping in the 17th Century,
Economic History Review, (1930), 261-90.
Pieter Emmer, The Dutch in the Atlantic Economy, 1580-1880 (1998).
Charles Wilson, The Dutch Republic (1968).
E. H. Kossman, The Dutch Republic in the 18th Century, (1992).
B. Schmidt, Innocence Abroad, 2001
Charles Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne, Empire, 1600-1800
Engel Sluiter, Dutch-Spanish Rivalry in the Caribbean Area, 1594-1609,
Hispanic-American Historical Review, 28 (1948), 165-96.
Karel Davids, From Golden Age to Golden Age, An Introduction to the Role
of the Netherland in Economic Science and Economic History;
Jan de Vries, Dutch Economic Growth in Comparative-Historical Perspective,
1500-2000;
Joel Mokyr, The Industrial Revolution and the Netherlands: Why Did It
Not Happen?;
Patrick O’Brien, Mercantilism and Imperialism in the Rise and Decline
of the Dutch and British Economies, 1585-1815;
All in De Economist, October 2000
Claudia Schnurmann, Atlantische Welten: [England and the Netherlands in
Atlantic North America, 1648-1713] (1998).
Britain in the Atlantic World -- North America and the
Caribbean, 1600-1763
See debates on indentured servitude, starting with articles by Galenson
and Campbell, WMQ, 1978-1979, and below.
Papers from Harvard “Workshop on the British Atlantic World,” 2000
– now published in Armitage, ed., The British Atlantic World (2003); articles
by Eliga Gould, David Armitage, Carla Pestana, Christopher Brown, Michael
Braddick, Elizabeth Mancke, Joyce Chaplin, etc.
Short articles on Atlantic World cities, in Common-Place on internet,
2003; e.g., Gary Nash, Seth Rockman, David Shields, Adrian Denis, Joyce Goodfriend
David Cressy, The Excellency of the Place: English Impressions of
New England, p.1-36 of Coming Over.
Marianne Wokeck, Harnessing the Lure of the Best Poor Man’s Country:
The Dynamics of German-Speaking Immigration to British North America, 204-243
of Ida Altman and James Horn, eds., To Make America: European Emigration
in the Early Modern Period (1991).
Chapters of Canny, Ireland in the Atlantic World. (see above)
Colin Kidd, The Varieties of Gothicism in the British Atlantic World,
1689-1800, pp.250-286 of British Identities before Nationalism . . . 1600-1800
(CUP), ed. Kidd.
John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British North America,
1607-1789, Chapel Hill, 1985; rev. ed., 1991.
Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden, eds., Colonial Identity in the Atlantic
World, 1500-1800. Princeton, 1987.
Franklin Knight, The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism
(Oxford, 1990).
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1973).
Jacob Price, France and the Chesapeake . . . 1674-1791 (1973).
Jack Greene, ed., Money, Trade, and Power: The Evolution of Colonial South
Carolina's Plantation Society (USC Press, 2000).
Richard Cullen Rath, Drums and Power: Creolization in Coastal South Carolina
and Georgia, 1730-1790, from 1995 Creole Cultures conference, UD
Phyllis W. Hunter, Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts
Merchants in the Atlantic World, Cornell:2000.
Peter Mancall, Envisioning America: English Plans for the Colonization
of North America, 1580-1640 (1995).
Nuala Zahedieh, Credit, Risk, and Reputation in the Late 17th Century
Colonial Trade, in Olaf U. Janzen, ed., Merchant Organization and Maritime
Trade in the North Atlantic, 1660-1815 (1998).
Marc Egnal, The Changing Structure of Philadelphia's Trade with the British
West Indies, 1750-1775, PMHB, 99 (April 1975), 156-179.
Thomas Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise . . . Philadelphia
(Chapel Hill, 1986).
Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea . . .. 1700-1750
(Cambridge, 1987).
Barry Levine, ed., The Caribbean Exodus (1987)
Idem., History of Caribbean Migrations: The Case of the West Indies, in
Caribbean Review 2 (1982)
Richard Pares, War and Trade in the West Indies, 1739-1763 (1939)
Frederick B. Tolles, Meeting House and Counting House . . . . 1682-1763
(New York, 1948).
Jacob Price, "What did Merchants Do? Reflections on British Overseas
Trade,1660-1790," J. Ec. Hist., 49 (1989), 278.
Jacob Price, Overseas Trade and Traders, 1996.
Kenneth Morgan, Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the 18th Century (1993).
David Harris Sacks, The Widening Gates: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy,
1450-1700 (Berkeley, 1991).
Christine Daniels, Negotiated Empires, some chapters (2002)
Paul Clemens, The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern
Shore, Ithaca, 1980.
David Shields, Oracles of Empire . . . 1690-1750 (Chicago, 1990).
David Hancock, Citizens of the World (1997)
R. C. Nash, "Trade and Business in 18th Cent. South Carolina," SCHM,
96 (Jan. 1995), 6-29.
Arthur L. Jensen, The Maritime Commerce of Colonial Philadelphia (Madison,
1963).
James Shepherd and Gary M. Walton, Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Ec.
Development of Col North Amer, Cambridge, 1972.
David Klingaman, Col. Va's Coastwise and Grain Trade, New York, 1975.
Merril D. Smith, ed., Sex and Secuality in Early America (1998) -- has
two articles about women in the British Caribbean -- by Natalie Zacek and
by Trevor Burnard
Roderick McDonald, ed., West Indian Accounts (dedicated to Richard Sheridan)
-- many great articles, including reviews of the work of E. Williams and
two important articles about women in the British Caribbean
Sydney Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Idem., Caribbean Transformations (1974)
Benitez-Rojo, The Repeating Island (has a good description of sugar
production)
Judith Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation
in the Americas (2001) -- makes connections in Africa re: rice cultivation
in New World (esp. North America)
Trevor Burnard, European Migratin to Jamaica, WMQ, 1996
Idem., new book on creolization of southern elite (2000)
Barbara Bush, book and article with name: Slave Women in the British
Caribbean, 1650-1834, A Perspective on Identity, Culture and Resistance,
in Wim Hoogbergen, eds., Born out of Resistance, On Caribbean Cultural Creativity
(2001)
Robin Fabel, Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs,
1759-1775 (Gainsville, 2000)
Perry Gauci, The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State
and Society, 1660-1720 (2001)
British North America's Internal Economy, 1600-1763 -- production, consumption,
migration, connections to Atlantic World
[see also lists on production and consumption, cities and frontiers,
labor, and slavery]
James A. Henretta, "Families and Farms: Mentalite in Pre- Industrial
America," WMQ, (1978), 3-32.
James T. Lemon, The Best Poor Man's Country: A Georgraphical Study of
Early Southeastern Pennsylvania, Baltimore:1972; and comment on Henretta,
WMQ, 37 (1980), 688-96, plus Henretta's reply.
Michael Merrill, "Cash is Good to Eat," RHR, (1977), 42-72.
Richard Bushman, "Markets and Composite Farms in Early America," WMQ,
55 (July 1998), 351-374
Danny Vickers, James T. Lemon and Bettye Hobbs Pruitt, William and Mary
Quarterly, special issue, #42, 1985, on domestic economy.
Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen (1994).
Christopher Clark, "Household Economy, Market Exchange, and the Rise
of Capitalism in the Connecticut Valley, 1800-1860," J. Soc. Hist., (1979),
169-89.
Carole Shammas, "How Self-Sufficient Was Early America?" Journal of Interdisciplinary
History (1982).
Winifred B. Rothenberg, "The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750-1855,"
JEH, (1981), 283-314.
Bettye Hobbs-Pruitt, "Self-Sufficiency and the Agricultural Economy
of 18th Century Massachusetts," WMQ, 333-64.
Rolla Tryon, Household Manufactures in the United States, (Chicago,
1917), (old, but a good place to start).
Lewis C. Gray, History of Agriculture in the United States to 1860, 2
vols. (Wash., DC, 1933).
Jean-Christophe Agnew,
Daniel Vickers, James T. Lemon and Bettye Hobbs Pruitt, WMQ 42 (1985),
a symposium of essays.
Thomas Doerflinger, "Farmers and Dry Goods in the Philadelphia Market
Area, 1750-1800," in Hoffman et al., eds., The Economy of Early America,
p.168-78.
Joan Jensen, Loosening the Bonds, Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750- 1850,
Yale, 1986.
Allan Pred, "Manufacturing in the Mercantile City, 1800-1840," Annals
of the Soc. of Amer. Geographers, 56 (1966), 307-25.
Robert Mutch, "Yeoman and Merchant in Pre-Industrial America," Societas,
7 (1977).
Ronald Schultz, "Small Producer Thought in Early America, Part I,"
Penn. Hist., 54 (1987), 115ff.
Steven Hahn and Jonathan Prude, eds., The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist
Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America, UNC, 1986.
Stephen Innes, ed., Work and Labor in Early America, Chapel Hill,
1988.
Thomas Wermuth, "The Market and NY Farmers: Commercial Behavior among
Ulster County Farmers, 1760-1840," paper for PCEAS, 1991.
Allan Kulikoff, "The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America," William
and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser, 46 (Jan. 1989), 120- 44.
Richard D. Brown, "Farm Labor in Southern New England during the Agricultural-Industrial
Transition," AAS proceedings, 1989 --- with essays also by Ross Beales, Jr.,
Richard Lyman, Jr., and Jack Larkin.
David Jaffe, "Peddlers of Progress and the Transformation of the Rural
North, 1760-1860," Winterthur Paper, 1991, and article in JAH.
Gregory Nobles, "Capitalism in the Countryside: The Transformation
of Rural Society in the U.S.," RHR, 41 (Spring 1988), 163-76.
Lorena Walsh, "Urban Amenities and Rural Sufficiency: Living Standards
and Consumer Behavior in the Col. Chesapeake, 1643-1777," Journal of Ec.
History, 43 (Mar. 1983).
Jonathan Prude, The Coming of the Industrial Order: Town and Factory Life
in Rural Mass, 1810-1860 (NY, 1983). -- esp. chap. 1 -- and his bibliography.
Gregory Nobles, "Merchant Middlemen in the Outwork Network of Rural
New England," in Merchant Credit and Labour Strategies in Historical
Perspectives, eds., Rosemary Ommer and Danl. Vickers, Fredericton, N.B.,
1991, 323-37.
Jeanne Boydston, Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology
of Labor in the Early Repubic, NY, 1990.
David Jaffe, "The Village Enlightenment in New England, 1760- 1820,"
Wil. and Mary Q., 47 (1990), 327-46.
Christopher Clark, "Economics and Culture: Opening Up the Rural History
of the Early American Northeast," Amer. Quarterly, 43 (1991), 279-301.
Christopher Clark, The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts,
1780-1860, (Ithaca, 1990).
Michael A. Bernstein and Sean Wilentz, "Marketing, Commerce and Capitalism
in Rural Massachusetts, Journal of Ec. Hist., 44 (Mar. 1984), 171-88.
James Henretta, et al., eds., The Transformation of Early American History:
Society, Authority, and Ideology, esp. article by Henretta, "The Transition
to Capitalism in America," 218-236.
Cynthia Shelton, "Textile Production and the Urban Laborer: The Proto-Industrialization
Experience of Philadelphia, 1787-1820," Paper in my possession, 1980-81.
Also, The Mills of Manayunk: Industrialization and Social Conflict in the
Philadelphia Region, 1787-1837 (1986).
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution, Jacksonian America, 1815-1846,
OUP, 1991. -- opening chapter
Gary Nash, "The Failure of Female Factory Labor in Colonial Boston," Labor
History, 20 (1979), 165-188
Sarah McMahon, "Laying Food By: Gender, Dietary Decisions, and the Technology
of Food Preservation in New England Households, 1750-1850," in Judith McGaw,
ed., Early American Technology, Making and Doing Things from the Colonial
Era to 1850, Chapel Hill, 1994, pp.164-96 -- see biblio too.
Lorena Walsh, "Urban Amenities and Rural Sufficiency: Living Standards
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Ec. Hist., 43 (Mar. 1983).
Lois Green Carr and Lorena S. Walsh, "The Planter's Wife: The Experience
of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," WMQ, 34 (1977), 542-71.
Sharon Salinger, To Serve Well and Faithfully: Labor and Indentured Servants
in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800, NY:1987. Also, "Artisans, Journeymen, and the
Transformation of Labor in Late 18th Century Philadelphia," WMQ, 1983, 62-84.
Daniel Thorp, "Assimilation in North Carolina's Moravian Community," J.
Southern Hist., 52 (1986), 19-42.
Robert Mitchell, Commercialism and Frontier: Perspectives on the Early
Shenandoah Valley, U. Press of Va., 1977.
Jack Greene and J. R. Pole, eds., Colonial British America: Essays in
the New History of the Early Modern Era, JHU, 1984. --many essays, esp.
by Ricahrd Sheridan and Jacob Price and Gary Nash.
T. H. Breen and Stephen Innes, 'Myne Owne Ground': Race and Freedom on
Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1644-1676, OUP, 1980.
Russell R. Menard, "From Servant to Freeholder: Status Mobility and Property
Accumulation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland," WMQ, 1972, 37-64.
Mechel Sobel, The World they Made Together: Black and White Values in
Eighteenth-Century Virginia, PUP, 1988.
Allan Kulikoff, Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Culture
in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800, Chapel Hill, 1986.
Darrett Rutman and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time: Middlesex County, VA,
1650-1750, Norton, 1984.
Richard Bushman, From Puritan to Yankee, Cambridge, 1967.
Marc Egnal, "The Economic Development of the Thirteen Colonies, 1720-1775,"
WMQ, April 1975, 191-222.
Billy G. Smith, "The Material Lives of Laboring Philadelphians, 1750-1800,"
WMQ, 1981, 163-202.
T. H. Breen, An Empire of Goods: The Anglicization of Colonial America,
1690-1776, JBrit Studies, 25 (1986), 467-99.
idem., "'Baubles of Britain': The American and Consumer Revolutions
of the Eighteenth Century," Past and Present, May 1988, #119, 73-104
idem., "Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community
on the Eve of the American Revolution," WMQ, 50 (July 1993), 471-501.
Sun Bok Kim, Landlord and Tenant, much on agriclture on manors.
Jacob E. Crowley, This Sheba, Self: The Conceptualization of Economic
Life in Eighteenth Centure America (JHU, 1974)
Joyce Appleby, "Social Origins . . . .
Gerald Carson, The Old Country Store, OUP, 1954 -- outdated, but
a starting point
Rita Gottesman, The Craftsmen of New York, esp. 249-269 on cloth production
Charles Howell and Allan Keller, The Mill at Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills
and a Brief History of Milling. Tarrytown, NY, 1977.
Max Schumacher, The Northern Famer and His Markets During the Late Colonial
Period, Arno, 1975 (1948 diss., UCLA).
Gloria Main, "Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England," WMQ,
Jan., 1994, 39-66.
Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard, and Lorena S. Walsh, Robert Cole's
World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland, UNC Press, 1992.
Winnifred Rothenberg, "The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750-1855,"
JEH, (1981), 283-314; and idem, "A Price Index for Rural Mass., 1750-1855,"
JEH, 39 (1979), 975-1001.
Thomas Wermuth, "The Market and NY Farmers: Commercial Behavior among
Ulster County Frmers, 1760-1840," paper for PCEAS, 1991.
Allan Kulikoff, "The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America," William
and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser, 46 (Jan. 1989), 120-44. Also, "Households
and Markets: Toward a new Synthesis of American Agrarian History," WMQ, April
1993
Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the
Eng. West Indies, 1624-1713, Chapel Hill, 1972.
Russell Menard, Ec. and Soc. in Early Col. Maryland, Ph.D. Diss.,
Univ. of Iowa, 1974.
Carville V. Earle, The Evolution of a Tidewater Settlement System,
Chi, 1975.
Philip Morgan, The Development of Slave Culture in Eighteenth-Century
Plantation America, D. Phil., Univ. of London, 1977. See Slave Counterpoint,
1998, too.
Gregory A. Stiverson, Poverty in a Land of Plenty . . . Maryland,
Balt, 1977.
Gloria L. Main, Tobacco Colony: Life in Early Maryland, 1650-1720,
Princeton, 1982.
Carole Shammas, Black Women's Work and the Ev. of Plantation Society in
Va., Labor History, 26 (1985), 5-28.
Carr and Walsh, Changing Lifestyles, in Of Consuming Interests, 1994
Cary Carson, The Consumer Revolution in America, Why Demand?, in Of Consuming
Interests, 1994.
Breen, Baubbles of Britain, P&P, 1988, 73-104.
Ann Smart Martin, Material Things and Cultural Meanings: Notes on the
Study of Early American Material Culture, WMQ, Jan. 1996, 5-12.
Lucy Simler, Tenancy in Col. Penn: The Case of Chester County, WMQ, 3rd
ser., 43 (1986), 542-69.
Elinor F. Oakes, A Ticklish Business: Dairying in New England and Penn,
1750-1812, Penn Hist, 47 (1980), 195-211.
David Klingaman, Food Surpluses and Deficits in the Amer Colonies, 1768-1772,
JEc.H 31 (1971). Also, his The Coastal Trade of Colonial Mass, Essex Inst.
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Grant McCracken, Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic
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Cary Carson, "The Consumer Revolution in America: Why Demand?" -- in Of
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Linda Baumgarten, "The Textile Trade in Boston, 1650-1700," Arts of
the Anglo-American Community in the 17th Century, ed., Ian Quimby, Charlottesville,
1975, 219-73.
Adrian Hood, "The Gender Division of Labor in the Production of Textiles
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Jean B. Russo, "Self-Sufficiency and Local Exchange: Free Craftsmen in
Rural Chesapeake Society," in Colonial Chesapeake Society, Carr, Morgan,
and Russo, eds., 1988.
Johanna Miller Lewis on North Carolina artisans
Ann Smart Martin, "Material Things and Cultural Meanings: Notes on the
Study of Early American Material Culture." -- intro. to special issue of
WMQ, Jan. 1996, 5-12.
William R. Bagnall, The Textile Industries of the United States, vol.
1, Cambr, Mass., 1893, 1-65
Victor Clark, Hist. of Manfs in the U.S., NY, 1929.
Ian M. G. Quimby, ed., Arts of the Anglo-American Community in the Seventeenth
Century, Charlottesville, 1975.
David Galenson, White Servitude in Colonial America, NY, 1981.
William Sachs, "Agri. Conditions i the Northern Cols. Before the Rev.,
" JEH, 13 (1953)
Cultivation and Culture collection, ed., Ira Berlin and Philip Morgan
(1993).
Stephen Innes, Creating the Commonwealth . . . (1994)
Laurel T. Ulrich, Wheels, Looms, and the Gender Division of Labor in 18th
Century New England, WMQ, 1998, 3-38.
Alison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World
(1999).
Allan Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (2000).
Russell Menard, Migrants, Servants, and Slaves: Immigration and Unfree
Labour in Colonial British America (2001).
Marianne S. Wokeck, Trade in Strangers: The Beginnings of Mass Migration
to North America (1999).
Seth Cotlar, "Radical Conceptions of Property Rights and Economic Equality
in the Early American Republic: The Trans-Atlantic Dimension," Explorations
in Early American Culture (2000), 191-219.
Cynthia Van Zandt, Negotiating Settlement: Colonialism, Cultural Exchange,
and Conflict in Early Colonial Atlantic North America, 1580-1660 (1998 dissertation).
Katherine Braund, Deerskins and Duffels -- traces demand in Europe, through
the British colonial build-up of trade -- good biblio of fur trade -- see
also Eric Wolf, of course.
Trevor Burnard, Creole Gentlemen, The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776 (2001)
HATFIELD, April Lee. _Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the
Seventeenth Century_ (Penn, 2003)
KAZANJIAN, David. _The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship
in Early America_ (Minnesota, 2003)
PULSIPHER, Jenny Hale. "The _Widow Ranter_ and Royalist Culture in Colonial
Virginia_," _Early American Literature_ 39:1 (2004): 41-66
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Revolutions, 1775-1825
[see separate reading list on Haitian Revolution, titles in French
and English]
C.L.R. James, Black Jacobins . . . (1938)
Eric William, Capitalism and Slavery (1944)
Carl L. Lokke, London Merchant Interests in the St. Domingue Plantations
of the Emigres, 1793-1798, AHR, 1938
Robert R. Palmer, The Age of Democratic Revolutions . . . (1959)
R. A. Humphreys, Tradition and Revolt in Latin America (1969)
John Lynch, British Policy and Spanish America, 1783-815, Journal
of Latin American History, 1969, pp.1-30.
Edward K. Brathwaite, The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica,
1770-1820 (1971)
Roger Anstey, The Atlantic Slave Trade andBritish Abolition, 1760-1810
(1975)
David B. Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823
(1975)
Peggy Liss, Atlantic Empires (1983)
A.P. Whitaker, The U.S. and the Independence of Latin America, 1800-1830
Ian Steel, The English Atlantic (1986)
T. Breen, Baubles of Britain, P&P, 1988
Robin Blackburn, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery, 1776-1848 (1988)
Final chapters of Thomas Doerflinger, A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise;
Paul Clemens, The Atlantic Economy and Colonial Maryland's Eastern Shore;
David Geggus, "The Haitian Revolution," in Franklin Knight and Colin
Palmer, The Modern Caribbean, 1989, pp.21-50.
Carolyn Fick, The Making of Haiti: The St. Domingue Revolution from
Below (1990)
Franklin Knight, The Caribbean: Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism
(1990)
Anthony Pagden, Lords of All the World
Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World
(1991)
Jay Kinsbruner, Independence in Spanish America (1994)
Lester Langley, The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (1996)
Barry Higman, CEHUS, final section of his chapter, 1997
Carolyn Fick, "The French Revolution in Saint Domingue," in D.B.
Gaspar and D. Geggus, A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater
Caribbean, 1997, p.51-75.
Robert Paquette, "Revolutionary St. Domingue in . . . . Louisiana,"
in ibid.
Oxford History of the British Empire, chapters in Volume 2
Jaime E. Rodriguez O., The Independence of Spanish America (1998)
American Historical Review, articles of 1996, 1999, 2000
Peter Linbaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra . . . (1999)
Susan Dunn, Sister Revolutions: French Lightening, American Light
(1999)
Laurent Dubois, "The Price of Liberty . . . Guadeloupe, 1794-1798," WMQ,
1999, 363-92.
Andrew O'Shaughnessey, An Empire Divided . . . (2000)
Franklin Knight, "The Haitian Revolution," AHR, Feb. 2000, 103-115;
Jack Greene, "The American Revolution," in ibid.
Victor Uribe-Uran, State and Society in Spanish America During the Age
of Revolution (2001)
R. Darrell Meadows, "Engineering Exile . . . French, 1789-1809," French
Historical Studies, 2001, pp.67-102.
Christine Daniels, Negotiated Empires, some chapters (2002)
David P. Geggus, ed., The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the
Atlantic World (2001) – and reviews.
Kirsten Schultz, Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese
Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 (2001)
Robin Fabel, Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs,
1759-1775 (2000)
Jordana Dym, Citizen of White Republic: Foreigners and the Construction
of Citizenship in Central America, 1800-1840, paper from NYU Atlantic World
seminar, 2004
Ashli White, paper on San Dominguan Refugees of 1809, McNeil Paper,
2003
David Ryden, "Does Decline Make Sense? The West Indies Sugar Economy and
the Abolition of the British Slave Trade," JIH, Winter, 2001, 347-74;
Lesler Langley, The Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 (1996);
Stephen Conway, The British Isles and the War of American Independence
(2000).
Robert R. Palmer, The Age of Democratic Revolution;
Idem., The World Revolution of the West, Pol. Science Quar, 1954, 1-14;
Jacques Godechot, France and the Atlantic Revolution of the Eighteenth
Century;
Richard Whatmore, Republicanism and the French Revolution . .
. (2000);
Patrick O'Brien essay in McCusker and Morgan collection, on Napoleonic
Wars, 2000.
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