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Abolitionism (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). There is a huge body of literature on abolitionism. For a selective bibliography, see Michael Guasco, ‘The Abolition of Slavery’, in Oxford Online Bibliography in Atlantic History , www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414–0001.xml?rskey=KvOAze&result=1 , accessed 21 August 2021
non-North Atlantic history or philosophy, remove a statue or painting. When the prestigious American Historical Review, in January 2018, announced that it was ‘decolonising’ itself, it seemingly meant only or mainly a little more ethnic diversity in its review coverage and editorial board. 17 In sum, then, and as Jonathan Jansen has (again) urged with particular force and clarity
–9, 76–8; G. A. Williams, When Was Wales?: A History of the Welsh (London: Penguin, 1991) , pp. 143–5; Evans, ‘Wales, Munster and the English South West’, pp. 40–61; C. A. Whatley, The Industrial Revolution in Scotland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) , pp. 1–3, 27–38. 65 Eric Richards, ‘Scotland and the Uses of the Atlantic Empire’, in Bailyn and Morgan, Strangers within the Realm , pp. 67–114 . 66 For the regional divisions used in this study see Maps 1 , 2 and 3 . 67 D. Armitage, ‘Three Concepts of Atlantic History’, in Armitage
activities of ambitious and speculative individuals who carved out a new life or career for themselves in the colonies. The relatively recent innovation that is Atlantic history, or the history of the Atlantic world, presents the historian with an alternative way of configuring the history of Britain’s overseas empire. 11 Peter Marshall’s observation that the early eighteenth-century empire could mean just as easily ‘power or dominant interests outside Britain’ as control over territory, hints at the need of a
the west: A passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the revolution (London: I. B. Tauris, 1987 ); B. Bailyn, ‘The idea of Atlantic history’, Itinerario , 20 ( 1996 ), 19–44; D. W. Meinig, The shaping of America , vol. 1: Atlantic America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986 ); I. K. Steele, The English Atlantic
and the Common Good (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007), pp. 285–302; Peter Miller, Defining the Common Good: Empire, Religion and Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); David Armitage, Greater Britain, 1516–1778: Essays in Atlantic History (Aldershot: Ashgate Variorum, 2004), esp. pp. 34–63, 91
P. Lovejoy and D. Richardson, ‘Trust, pawnship, and Atlantic history: the institutional foundations of the Old Calabar Slave Trade’, American Historical Review , 104:2 (1999), 333–55. 20 Lynn, Commerce and Economic Change , pp. 133–6; S. Newell, The Forger’s Tale: The Search for Odeziaku
Liverpool Atlantic history, the company continues to place itself as the agent linking those two places, which in turn defines its identity as an organisation. 10 John Holt company logo This chapter seeks to bring together Holt
Magee and Thompson, Empire and Globalisation, p. 1. 11 Bernard Bailyn, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (Cambridge, MA, 2005), pp. 95–7. 12 Daniel K. Richter, Before the Revolution: America’s Ancient Pasts (Cambridge, MA, 2011), p
-colonial US history. 85 Fischer, Albion’s Seed. 86 Bernard Bailyn, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (Cambridge, Mass., 2005); Thomas Bender (ed.), Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley, 2002), and A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History (New York, 2006); Aled Jones and Bill Jones, ‘The Welsh world and the British Empire, c.1851–1939: an exploration’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 31 (2003), 57–81. The