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1. The Fault Lines of Empire

   Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, 1760-1830

   By Elizabeth Mancke

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   The Fault Lines of Empire is a fascinating comparative study of two communities in the early modern British Empire--one in Massachusetts, the other in Nova Scotia. Elizabeth Mancke focuses on these two locations to examine how British attempts at reforming their empire impacted the...

   Published November 28th 2004 by Routledge
2. The King's Living Image

   The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico

   By Alejandro Caneque

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   To rule their vast new American territories, the Spanish monarchs appointed viceroys in an attempt to reproduce the monarchical system of government prevailing at the time in Europe. But despite the political significance of the figure of the viceroy, little is known about the mechanisms of...

   Published September 14th 2004 by Routledge
3. Naked Tropics

   Essays on Empire and Other Rogues

   By Kenneth Maxwell

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   First published in 2003...

   Published July 23rd 2003 by Routledge
4. Negotiated Empires

   Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500–1820

   Edited by Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French,...

   Published June 20th 2002 by Routledge
5. Within Her Power

   Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia

   By Linda Sturtz

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and...

   Published May 30th 2002 by Routledge
6. Creole Gentlemen

   The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776

   By Trevor Burnard

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   Examining the lives of 460 of the wealthiest men who lived in colonial Maryland, Burnard traces the development of this elite from a hard-living, profit-driven merchant-planter class in the seventeenth century to a more genteel class of plantation owners in the eighteenth century. This study...

   Published January 1st 2002 by Routledge
7. Tropical Versailles

   Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821

   By Kirsten Schultz

   Series: New World in the Atlantic World

   This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World....

   Published August 23rd 2001 by Routledge