The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 : comparisons and contrasts

The British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 : comparisons and contrasts /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Morgan, Gwenda (Author), Rushton, Peter (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Seminar studies in history.
Subjects:
British > America > History > 17th century.
British > America > History > 18th century.
French > America > History > 17th century.
French > America > History > 18th century.
America > History > To 1810.
America > Discovery and exploration > British.
America > Discovery and exploration > French.
America > Colonization.
Great Britain > Colonies > America.
France > Colonies > America.
Great Britain > History, Naval > 17th century.
Great Britain > History, Naval > 18th century.
France > History, Naval > 17th century.
France > History, Naval > 18th century.
Great Britain > History, Military > 17th century.
Great Britain > History, Military > 18th century.
France > History, Military > 17th century.
France > History, Military > 18th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 17th century.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. National, colonial, and Atlantic histories
  • 1.2. Patterns of contrast
  • 1.3. Sources and narratives
  • 2. Exploration and settlement
  • 2.1. Exploration
  • 2.2. Maps and cultural misunderstandings
  • 2.3. Documented examples
  • 3. New societies
  • 3.1. Migration
  • 3.1a. Varieties of migrant
  • 3.1b. Numbers
  • 3.2. Native encounters
  • 3.3. New societies, new economies
  • 3.3a. Slave societies
  • 3.3b. Servants and convicts
  • 3.4. Conclusion: New World, new societies
  • 4. Wars across the Atlantic
  • 4.1. Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665--1667)
  • 4.2. King William's War (1688--1697) 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--1748)
  • 4.5. 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.

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