Never truly a "new world"entirely detached from the home countries
of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a
model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the
conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American
environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or
to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In
the course of colonial history, these contrasting impulses produced
a host of distinctive cultures and identities.
In this impressive new collection, prominent scholars of early
American history explore this complex dynamic of accommodation and
replication to demonstrate how early American societies developed
from the intersection of American and Atlantic influences. The
volume, edited by Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, offers fresh
perspectives on colonial history and on early American attitudes
toward slavery and ethnicity, native Americans, and the
environment, as well as colonial social, economic, and political
development. It reveals the myriad ways in which American colonists
were the inhabitants and subjects of a wider Atlantic world.
Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, one of a
three-volume series under the editorship of Jack P. Greene, aims to
give students of Atlantic history a "state of the field"survey by
pursuing interesting lines of research and raising new questions.
The entire series, "Anglo-America in the Transatlantic
World,"engages the major organizing themes of the subject through a
collection of high-level, debate-inspiring essays, inviting readers
to think anew about the complex ways in which the Atlantic
experience shaped both American societies and theAtlantic world
itself.
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