Negotiated Empires

In this innovative volume, leading historians of the early modern Americas examine the subjects of early modern, continuing colonization, and the relations between established colonies and frontiers of settlement. Their original essays about centers and peripheries in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and British America invite comparison.

Christine Daniels is Associate Professor of American History at Michigan State University. Michael V.Kennedy is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Flint.

Preface, Christine DanielsPeripheries, Centers and the Construction of Early Modern American Empires: An Introduction, Jack P. Greene and Amy Turner BushnellGates and Patterns: Regarding the Spanish American Peripheries, Amy Turner BushnellIntegral to Empire: The Vital Peripheries of Colonial Spanish America, John Jay TepaskReconsidering the Center: Puebla and Mexico City, 1550-1650, Ida AltmanColonial Centers, Colonial Peripheries and the Economic Agency of the Spanish State, Lyman L. Johnson and Susan Migden SocolowBourbons and Barbaros: Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy, David J. WeberCenters and Peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian World, 1500-1808, A.J.R. Russell-Wood The Periphery of the Periphery?: Vila Boa de Goias, 1780-1835, Mary KaraschOther Netherlands Beyond the Sea: Dutch America Between Metropolitan Control and Divergence, 1600-1795, Wim KloosterCenter and Periphery in French North America, Leslie ChoquetteThe Frontier Era of the French Caribbean, 1620s-1690s, Philip BoucherNegotiating an Empire: Britain and Its Overseas Peripheries, c. 1550-1780, Elizabeth Mancke Transatlantic Colonization and the Definition of Empire in the Early Modern Era: The British-American Experience, Jack P. GreenePerceptions from the Periphery: Colonial American Views of Britain's Asiatic Empire, 1756-1783, H.V. BowenEmpire for Liberty: Center and Peripheries in Post-Colonial America, Peter S. Onuf