1st Edition
The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 Comparisons and Contrasts
PART 1
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1.National, Colonial, and Atlantic Histories
1.2 Patterns of Contrast
1.3 Sources and Narratives
Chapter 2. Exploration and Settlement
2.1 Exploration
2.2 Maps and Cultural Misunderstandings
2.3 Documented Examples
Chapter 3. New Societies
3.1 Migration
3.1a Varieties of Migrants
3.1b Numbers
3.2 Native Encounters
3.3 New Societies, New Economies
3.3a Slave Societies
3.3c Servants and Convicts
3.4 Conclusion : New World, New Societies
4. Wars across the Atlantic
4.1 The Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667)
4.2 King William's War (1688-97) or The Nine Years' War
4.3 Queen Anne's War / The War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713)
4.4. War of Jenkins' Ear/War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War) (1739-48)
4.5 The Seven Years' War / French and Indian War (1754-1763)
5. Resistance, Rebellions and Revolutions
5. 1 Resistance
5.2 Runaways: Servants and Slaves ‘stealing themselves’
5.3 Rebellions
5.4 Slave Conspiracies, real or imagined ?
5.5 White Rebellions/Rebellious Whites
5.6 Revolutions
6. Conclusion
PART 2
7. Documents
8. Further Reading and References
Biography
Peter Rushton is Professor of Historical Sociology at the University of Sunderland. He has published widely on aspects of the personal and social relations of early modern England, from witchcraft, welfare, to problems of marriage and family life.
Gwenda Morgan, formerly Reader in American History and American Studies at the University of Sunderland, is now Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham. She has published on law and society in colonial America and the young republic, a monograph on Richmond County, Virginia, and The Debate on the American Revolution (2007)
Together, they have published Eighteenth-Century Criminal Transportation: the Formation of the Criminal Atlantic (2003) and Banishment in the Early Atlantic World: Convicts, Rebels and Slaves (2013)
