Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

by Canny, Nicholas; Pagden, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9780691053721
• ISBN10: 0691053723
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-08-01
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

Summary

. . . a pioneer reconnaissance of the notion of colonial identity in the post-Columbian world.--B. W. Higman, The Journal of American History It is these creoles, 'colonials' as opposed to the 'colonised,' who form the subjects of Canny and Pagden's intelligent new book. In its compact pages we watch the {colonials} attempting to work out 'who' and just how 'new/old' they were during centuries unhaunted by the spectre of nationalism.--Benedict Anderson, London Review of Books The prolonged death throes of Europe's last overseas empires have stimulated a lively historical interest in the roots of decolonialization. The theme is taken up in this elegantly written and admirably edited volume in which Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden bring together a team of specialists to examine how, in the major Atlantic empires prior to the independence movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, colonies came to see themselves as possessing their own particular characteristics, and the bearing this had on those revolutions. . . . The editors and contributors are to be congratulated on this rich and rewarding book, essential reading for anyone interested in imperial history.--Geoffrey Scammell, The Times Higher Education Supplement

Author Biography

Nicholas Canny is Professor of Modern History at the National University of Ireland at University College, Galway Anthony Pagden is a Fellow of King's College and Lecturer in History at Cambridge University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World	p. 3
The Formation of a Colonial Identity in Brazil	p. 15
Identity Formation in Spanish America	p. 51
Nouvelle-France / Quebec / Canada: A World of Limited Identities	p. 95
Identity in British America: Unease in Eden	p. 115
Identity Formation in Ireland: The Emergence of the Anglo-Irish	p. 159
Changing Identity in the British Caribbean: Barbados as a Case Study	p. 213
Afterword: From Identity to Independence	p. 267
Index	p. 279
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