New World Orders Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial
Americas Edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey
"Fascinating case studies of how authority was both brutal yet
precarious and malleable in the French, Spanish, English, and Dutch
empires of the New World."--"American Historical Review" "This is
an almost ideal anthology for graduate students and scholars still
weighing the value of Atlantic-world scholarship. The essays are
consistently strong and jargon-free. Editors and authors have
produced a crisp, coherent, and readable volume whose case studies
and arguments should stimulate discussion on the merits of the
connecting themes rather than suffer cannibalization by specialists
perusing only contributions from a particular geographic
region."--"Hispanic American Historical Review" "This wide-ranging
collection . . . offers a] compelling framework to connect the
small triumphs and tragedies of daily life in colonial outposts
with the grand plans of distant empire builders."--"Journal of the
Early Republic" As the geographic boundaries of early American
history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore
the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time,
historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible
enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of imperial history
and the hidden narratives of social history into a broader,
synthetic whole. No such paradigm that captures the two
perspectives has yet emerged. "New World Orders" addresses these
broad conceptual issues by reexamining the relationships among
violence, sanction, and authority in the early modern Americas.
More specifically, the essays in this volume explore the wide
variety of legal and extralegal means--from state-sponsored
executions to unsanctioned crowd actions--by which social order was
maintained, with a particular emphasis on how extralegal sanctions
were defined and used; how such sanctions related to legal forms of
maintaining order; and how these patterns of sanction, embedded
within other forms of colonialism and culture, created cultural,
legal, social, or imperial spaces in the early Americas. With
essays written by senior and junior scholars on the British,
Spanish, Dutch, and French colonies, "New World Orders" presents
one of the most comprehensive looks at the sweep of colonization in
the Atlantic world. By juxtaposing case studies from Brazil,
Venezuela, New York, California, Saint Domingue, and Louisiana with
treatments of broader trends in Anglo-America or Spanish America
more generally, the volume demonstrates the need to examine the
questions of violence, sanction, and authority in hemispheric
perspective. John Smolenski teaches history at the University of
California, Davis. Thomas J. Humphrey is Associate Professor of
History at Cleveland State University and author of "Land and
Liberty: Hudson Valley Riots in the Age of Revolution." Early
American Studies 2005 376 pages 6 x 9 6 illus. ISBN
978-0-8122-3895-2 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-1922-7 Paper
$26.50s 17.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-9000-4 Ebook $26.50s 17.50 World
Rights American History Short copy: "New World Orders" juxtaposes
case studies from Brazil to California to New York to explore the
wide variety of legal and extralegal means by which social order
was maintained in the early Americas.
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