Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Environment and Identity
1. The Nature of Slavery: Environmental Disorder and Slave Agency in Colonial South Carolina
2. "For Want of a Social Set": Networks and Social Interaction in the Lower Cape Fear Region of North Carolina, 1725-1775
3. "Almost an Englishman": Eighteenth-Century Anglo-African Identities
4. Conservation, Class, and Controversy in Early America
Part II: Exchange and Identity
5. Beyond Declension: Economic Adaptation and the Pursuit of Export Markets in the Massachusetts Bay Region, 1630-1700
6. Paternalism and Profits: Planters and Overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825
7. "The Fewnesse of Handicraftsmen": Artisan Adaptation and Innovation in the Colonial Chesapeake
8. The Other "Susquahannah Traders": Women and Exchange on the Pennsylvania Frontier
Part III: Politics and Identity
9. A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke
10. Enjoying and Defending Charter Privileges: Corporate Status and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Rhode Island
11. Native Americans, the Plan of 1764, and a British Empire That Never Was
12. Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America
Notes
List of Contributors
Index

About the Author

Robert Olwell is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin. Alan Tully is a professor of history at the University of Texas, Austin.

Reviews

Very engaging collection of twelve original essays. -- Neil Kennedy Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History This book is... important, inspiring readers to think about the identity issues of late Colonial America in new and novel ways. Sixteenth Century Journal A helpful introduction. North Carolina Historical Review An impressive collection of accessible essays from twelve historians. Journal of World History The editors here are to be applauded for coping so admirably with the challenge of creating a coherent volume out of such a broad range of topics. Journal of British Studies All of the essays work together to formulate a whole that is much larger than the sum of its individual parts... The cross-pollination of ideas and common link to Greene's theories help to make this volume a coherent dialogue among scholars. Journal of Southern History