English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661

Carla Gardina Pestana is Professor of History and Joyce Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire and The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661.

• Acknowledgments Notes on Dating and Editorial Method Map: The English Atlantic, 1640-1661 Introduction: Revolution and the English Atlantic Prologue: The English Atlantic in 1640 1. The Challenge of Civil War 2. Puritan Ascendancy and Religious Polarization 3. Regicide and Royalist Rebellions 4. Religious Politics of a "Puritan Revolution" 5. Free Trade and Freeborn English Men 6. Lost Liberty and Laboring People in the Atlantic World Epilogue: The English Atlantic and the Limits of Restoration Appendix 1. Population Figures, 1640 Appendix 2. London Pamphlets about New England, 1641-1649 Notes Index

In this ambitious study of a neglected subject, Carla Gardina Pestana interrogates how changes in social, religious, and political matters in England’s overseas colonies were influenced by the course of revolution in England, Scotland, and Ireland. She particularly demonstrates the enduring impact of the Cromwellian regime upon the English presence in the Atlantic. Drawing on a wealth of sources, she poses intelligent questions that elicit frequently surprising answers. This is a compelling contribution to Atlantic history.