Anglicizing America : : Empire, Revolution, Republic / / ed. by David J. Silverman, Andrew Shankman, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz.

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• MitwirkendeR: Brunsman, Denver,; Carter, William Howard,; Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio,; Joseph, Anthony M.,; Murrin, John M.,; Newman, Simon P.,; Plank, Geoffrey,; Rhoden, Nancy L.,; Shankman, Andrew,; Silverman, David J.,; Stern, Jeremy A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio,; Shankman, Andrew,; Silverman, David J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

The thirteen mainland colonies of early America were arguably never more British than on the eve of their War of Independence from Britain. Though home to settlers of diverse national and cultural backgrounds, colonial America gradually became more like Britain in its political and judicial systems, material culture, economies, religious systems, and engagements with the empire. At the same time and by the same process, these politically distinct and geographically distant colonies forged a shared cultural identity-one that would bind them together as a nation during the Revolution.Anglicizing America revisits the theory of Anglicization, considering its application to the history of the Atlantic world, from Britain to the Caribbean to the western wildernesses, at key moments before, during, and after the American Revolution. Ten essays by senior historians trace the complex processes by which global forces, local economies, and individual motives interacted to reinforce a more centralized and unified social movement. They examine the ways English ideas about labor influenced plantation slavery, how Great Britain's imperial aspirations shaped American militarization, the influence of religious tolerance on political unity, and how Americans' relationship to Great Britain after the war impacted the early republic's naval and taxation policies. As a whole, Anglicizing America offers a compelling framework for explaining the complex processes at work in the western hemisphere during the age of revolutions.Contributors: Denver Brunsman, William Howard Carter, Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Anthony M. Joseph, Simon P. Newman, Geoffrey Plank, Nancy L. Rhoden, Andrew Shankman, David J. Silverman, Jeremy A. Stern.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Anglicization -- Chapter 1. England and Colonial America: A Novel Theory of the American Revolution -- Chapter 2. A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Achievement of John M. Murrin -- Part II. Empire -- Chapter 3. "In Great Slavery and Bondage": White Labor and the Development of Plantation Slavery in British America -- Chapter 4. Anglicizing the League: The Writing of Cadwallader Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations -- Chapter 5. A Medieval Response to a Wilderness Need: Anglicizing Warfare in Colonial America -- Part III. Revolution -- Chapter 6. Anglicanism, Dissent, and Toleration in Eighteenth-Century British Colonies -- Chapter 7. Anglicization Against the Empire: Revolutionary Ideas and Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts -- Part IV. Republic -- Chapter 8. Racial Walls: Race and the Emergence of American White Nationalism -- Chapter 9. De-Anglicization: The Jeffersonian Attack on an American Naval Establishment -- Chapter 10. Anglicization and the American Taxpayer, c. 1763-1815 -- Conclusion. Anglicization Reconsidered -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments