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The Empire Reformed - English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution (Paperback)
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The Empire Reformed - English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Early American Studies
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The Empire Reformed tells the story of a forgotten revolution in
English America-a revolution that created not a new nation but a
new kind of transatlantic empire. During the seventeenth century,
England's American colonies were remote, disorganized outposts with
reputations for political turmoil. Colonial subjects rebelled
against authority with stunning regularity, culminating in
uprisings that toppled colonial governments in the wake of
England's "Glorious Revolution" in 1688-89. Nonetheless, after this
crisis authorities in both England and the colonies successfully
rebuilt the empire, providing the cornerstone of the great global
power that would conquer much of the continent over the following
century. In The Empire Reformed historian Owen Stanwood illustrates
this transition in a narrative that moves from Boston to London to
Barbados and Bermuda. He demonstrates not only how the colonies fit
into the empire but how imperial politics reflected-and
influenced-changing power dynamics in England and Europe during the
late 1600s. In particular, Stanwood reveals how the language of
Catholic conspiracies informed most colonists' understanding of
politics, serving first as the catalyst of rebellions against
authority, but later as an ideological glue that held the disparate
empire together. In the wake of the Glorious Revolution imperial
leaders and colonial subjects began to define the British empire as
a potent Protestant union that would save America from the designs
of French "papists" and their "savage" Indian allies. By the
eighteenth century, British Americans had become proud
imperialists, committed to the project of expanding British power
in the Americas.
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