Empire Reformed English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution

Name: Empire Reformed English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution
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ISBN: 9780812222838

ISBN-10: 0812222830

ISBN-13: 9780812222838

Edition: 2011

Authors: Owen Stanwood

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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…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 7/10/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Owen Stanwood teaches history at Boston College.



List of Illustrations


Introduction: Popery and Politics in the British Atlantic World



Empire Imagined



Imperial Designs



Catholics, Indians, and the Politics of Conspiracy



Empire Lost



Rumors and Rebellions



The Empire Turned Upside Down



Empire Regained



The Protestant Assault on French America



Ambivalent Bonds


Epilogue: Nicholson's Redemption


List of Abbreviations


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments