Shaping the Stuart World, 1603-1714: The Atlantic Connection (The Atlantic World, 5) (Atlantic World)

During the past few years it has become fashionable to speak of the "British Atlantic" and examine the Anglophone communities that came to populate it shores. This collection of essays undertakes something quite different. It examines the wide-ranging European interaction inherent in British expansion and discovers a multi-dimensional, multi-national Atlantic as a result. Spain, Sweden, and above all the Netherlands emerge as central to English and Scottish endeavors overseas and to the extremely diverse populations and cultures that eventually came to be known as British North America. This approach has led to a much richer and compelling picture of the early modern Atlantic world. The essays show the period to be one of collaboration as well as competition and conflict. They reveal far-reaching cultural, economic, and social interpenetration. Today's nationalist and ethnic preoccupations will find little comfort from them. The world they described is far too complex to fit the easy if stylish pattern of Edward Said's "orientalizing." The result has been a book at once highly significant and immediately topical. Contributors include: Wim Klooster, Allan I. Macinnes, Peter C. Mancall, Esther Mijers, Mark Peterson, Ernst Pijning, Steve Pincus, Kevin Sharpe, Reiner Smolinski, Jane Stevenson, Chris Storrs, Shona Vance, Helen Wilcox, and Arthur Williamson. Title Page 3 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 List of Contributors 12 Introduction: Connecting and Disconnecting With America 16 I 18 II 23 III 27 IV 34 V 40 Section One: Civilising Society, Reconfiguring Polities 46 Chapter One: Education, Culture and the Scottish Civic Tradition 48 I 49 II 53 III 59 IV 68 Chapter Two: A Man For All Regions—Patrick Copland and Education in the Stuart World 70 I 70 II 77 III 83 IV 87 V 89 VI 92 Chapter Three: The European Catholic Context of the Revolution of 1688–891: Gallicanism, Innocent Xi, and Catholic Opposition 94 I 97 II 100 III 108 IV 113 V 117 VI 124 VII 126 Section Two: Transferring Texts and Traditions 130 Chapter Four: Transplanting Revelation, Transferring Meaning: Reading the Apocalypse in Early Modern England, Scotland and New England 132 I 133 II 136 III 145 IV 152 V 160 Chapter Five: “Religion Stands On Tip-Toe”: George Herbert, the New England Poets, and the Transfer of Devotional Modes 162 I 163 II 167 III 171 V 178 VI 182 VII 186 Chapter Six: Authority and Interpretation: Cotton Mather’s Response to the European Spinozists 190 I 193 II 201 III 207 IV 212 Section Three: the Dutch Connection 220 Chapter Seven: Idealism and Power: the Dutch West India Company in the Brazil Trade (1630–1654) 222 I 224 II 229 III 235 IV 239 V 245 Chapter Eight: A Natural Partnership? Scotland and Zeeland in the Early Seventeenth Century 248 I 249 II 252 III 257 IV 267 V 269 VI 273 Chapter Nine: Anglo-Dutch Trade in the Seventeenth Century: An Atlantic Partnership? 276 I 276 II 280 III 284 IV 289 V 296 Section Four: Power and Settlement 298 Chapter Ten: Richard Ligon and the Theatre of Empire 300 I 301 II 305 III 312 IV 315 V 323 Chapter Eleven: Boston Pays Tribute: Autonomy and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1630–1714 326 I 327 II 330 III 334 IV 338 V 343 VI 350 Chapter Twelve: Foreign Penetration of the Spanish Empire 1660–1714: Sweden, Scotland and England 352 II 357 III 362 IV 371 V 379 Epilogue: Becoming Atlantic 382 I 383 II 388 III 390 Index 394 The Atlantic World 406