Robert Olwell and Alan Tully teach early American history at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Introduction Part I: Environment and Identity1. 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 AmericaPart II: Exchange and Identity5. 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 FrontierPart III: Politics and Identity9. A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke10. 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 Was12. Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America Notes List of Contributors Index

Very engaging collection of twelve original essays. -- Neil Kennedy Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 2006 A helpful introduction. -- Leonard J. Sadosky North Carolina Historical Review 2007 An impressive collection of accessible essays from twelve historians. -- Marcia Schmidt Blaine Journal of World History 2007 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. -- Sarah M. S. Pearsall Journal of British Studies 2007 A coherent dialogue among scholars who examined various fragments of the empire in their specific permutations. -- Linda Sturtz Journal of Southern History 2007

Robert Olwell and Alan Tully teach early American history at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Introduction Part I: Environment and Identity1. 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 AmericaPart II: Exchange and Identity5. 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 FrontierPart III: Politics and Identity9. A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke10. 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 Was12. Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America Notes List of Contributors Index

Very engaging collection of twelve original essays. -- Neil Kennedy Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 2006 A helpful introduction. -- Leonard J. Sadosky North Carolina Historical Review 2007 An impressive collection of accessible essays from twelve historians. -- Marcia Schmidt Blaine Journal of World History 2007 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. -- Sarah M. S. Pearsall Journal of British Studies 2007 A coherent dialogue among scholars who examined various fragments of the empire in their specific permutations. -- Linda Sturtz Journal of Southern History 2007

Robert Olwell and Alan Tully teach early American history at the University of Texas, Austin.

• Introduction Part I: Environment and Identity1. 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 AmericaPart II: Exchange and Identity5. 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 FrontierPart III: Politics and Identity9. A Death in the Morning: The Murder of Daniel Parke10. 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 Was12. Between Private and Public Spheres: Liberty as Cultural Property in Eighteenth-Century British America Notes List of Contributors Index

Very engaging collection of twelve original essays. -- Neil Kennedy Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History 2006 A helpful introduction. -- Leonard J. Sadosky North Carolina Historical Review 2007 An impressive collection of accessible essays from twelve historians. -- Marcia Schmidt Blaine Journal of World History 2007 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. -- Sarah M. S. Pearsall Journal of British Studies 2007 A coherent dialogue among scholars who examined various fragments of the empire in their specific permutations. -- Linda Sturtz Journal of Southern History 2007