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.

• 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 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

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.

• 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 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

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.

• 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 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