Carla Gardina Pestana is W. E. Smith Professor of History at Miami University in Ohio.
[An] ambitious analysis of transatlantic politics...The provocative
analysis in "The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution"
challenges scholars to develop a more expansive and inclusive view
of the colonial Atlantic world: a view that accounts for the
international and global trends that influenced Anglo-American
relations and a view open to the possibility that poor, unfree, or
female colonists may not have been limited to the outlooks,
experiences, or ideas articulated by politically active men.--John
Wood Sweet"William and Mary Quarterly" (10/01/2005)
[A] meticulous and highly detailed book...Novel and
clarifying.--Linda Colley"New York Review of Books"
(06/22/2006)
Carla Gardina Pestana is the first scholar to attempt to integrate
the story of the entire English Atlantic with that of the three
kingdoms of the British Isles. To achieve this goal she has
mastered an impressive amount of secondary literature, printed
documents, and manuscript materials...This is a book that demands
the attention of anyone who is interested in the history of
seventeenth-century England or the colonies that made up the first
British empire. It should provoke new interest in the stories of
hitherto neglected colonies and suggest new ways of understanding
the relationships among the colonies themselves and the between
colonies and the mother country.--Francis J. Bremer"Journal of
American History" (12/01/2005)
Carla Gardina Pestana's "The English Atlantic in an Age of
Revolution, 1640-1661" fills a surprising gap in the scholarly
literature...For its scope and complexity, Pestana's argument is
brief, lucid, and persuasive...This nuanced vision of Atlantic
history places imperial and metropolitan actors at the center of
the narrative (and rightly so) while stressing the diversity of the
English Atlantic and the importance of local circumstances to the
history of empire.--Michael LaCombe"Common-Place" (04/01/2005)
Carla Gardina Pestana's book is an exemplary study in Atlantic
history...Pestana provides an innovative recasting of English
colonial history, framing new questions for subsequent study and
reshaping our understanding of the English Atlantic in its earliest
and formative decades. [She] argues that the English colonies were
transformed between 1640 and 1660 and that the transformations can
be explained by the events of the civil war and revolution...It is
impossible to overstate Pestana's accomplishment.--Alison Games
"Journal of British Studies "
Carla Pestana's new book marks a significant step in the
re-imagining of colonial America. Instead of focusing on a
particular colony, her work spans the English Atlantic--the series
of colonies, some rather small and soon forgotten, that ranged from
Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Her theme is an important one that
has lain dormant for too long: the transformation of England's
Atlantic colonies by the revolutionary events of the 1640s and
1650s. The result is a powerful account of how an event generally
overlooked in American histories played a crucial role in the
development of colonial American society.--Evan Haefeli"Business
History Review" (07/01/2005)
Pestana is the first to attempt to integrate the story of the
English Atlantic with that of the British Isles.--Francis J.
Bremer"Journal of American History" (12/01/2005)
This book will be welcomed by research specialists and students
alike. Itcontains an appendix discussing population estimates for
colonies in 1640 and another listing pamphlets about New England
published in England during the 1640s. The endnotes fill
eighty-nine pages of close type...There is a detailed map of the
English Atlantic World at the outset, and throughout the book
Pestana does not assume that her reader has a command of the
narrative details of either the English Revolution or the early
phases of English colonialism. The book would therefore lend itself
to courses dealing with early modern England, colonial America, or
the Atlantic world...Pestana's book istherefore a most welcome
addition to the field.--Joseph P. Ward "Seventeenth-Century News
"
This book will remain for a long time on the historian's shelf by
virtue of its own strength.--Luca Codignola"International History
Review" (03/01/2006)
Throughout this original contribution, Pestana demonstrates both
the vitality and the potential of Atlantic World scholarship for
better understanding the total history of England's colonial
empire.--J. Mercantini"Choice" (09/25/2005)
Carla Gardina Pestana's The English Atlantic in an Age of
Revolution, 1640-1661 fills a surprising gap in the scholarly
literature...For its scope and complexity, Pestana's argument is
brief, lucid, and persuasive...This nuanced vision of Atlantic
history places imperial and metropolitan actors at the center of
the narrative (and rightly so) while stressing the diversity of the
English Atlantic and the importance of local circumstances to the
history of empire.
been limited to the outlooks, experiences, or ideas articulated by
politically active men.
importance of local circumstances to the history of empire.
is therefore a most welcome addition to the field.
revolution...It is impossible to overstate Pestana's
accomplishment.
British empire. It should provoke new interest in the stories of
hitherto neglected colonies and suggest new ways of understanding
the relationships among the colonies themselves and the between
colonies and the mother country.
The result is a powerful account of how an event generally
overlooked in American histories played a crucial role in the
development of colonial American society.
ÝAn¨ ambitious analysis of transatlantic politics...The provocative
analysis in "The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution"
challenges scholars to develop a more expansive and inclusive view
of the colonial Atlantic world: a view that accounts for the
international and global trends that influenced Anglo-American
relations and a view open to the possibility that poor, unfree, or
female colonists may not have been limited to the outlooks,
experiences, or ideas articulated by politically active men. --
John Wood Sweet "William and Mary Quarterly" (10/01/2005)
ÝA¨ meticulous and highly detailed book...Novel and clarifying. --
Linda Colley "New York Review of Books" (06/22/2006)
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