Index

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. Contexts
6. Changing Spaces: Reconstructing the Political Economy of Empire 3
7. Ian K. Steele as Military Historian 18
8. Political Economy
9. The Talented Mr Blathwayt His Empire Revisited 33
10. Patronage and Governance in Francis Nicholson’s Empire 59
11. Policy and Patronage Governor William Gooch and Anglo-Virginia Politics, 1727-1749 81
12. The Maritime Atlantic
13. William Crashaw’s Bridge Bermuda and the Origins of the English Atlantic, 1609–1624 107
14. Forests of Masts and Seas of Trees The English Royal Forests and the Restoration Navy¹ 136
15. Plying the Northernmost Atlantic Trading Route to the New World The Hudson’s Bay Company and British Seaborne Empire1 174
16. The Atlantic of the Rival Navies, 1714–1783 206
17. Amerindian and Military Frontiers
18. “Onenwahatirighsi Sa Gentho Skaghnughtudigh ” Reassessing Haudenosaunee Relations with the Albany Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1723-1755¹ 236
19. Atlantic Microcosm: The Royal American Regiment, 1755-1772¹ 284
20. In the King’s Service Provisioning and Quartering the British Army in the Old Northwest, 1760–73¹ 310
21. Social History
22. Samson Occom Mohegan Leader, Christian Shaman, and Christian Sachem 345
23. Overcoming Nausea The Brothers Hesselius and the Great American Mystery¹ 372
24. Patriarchal Authority in Revolutionary Virginia Connecting Familial Relations and Revolutionary Crises¹ 410
25. “We Are No Less Friendly to Liberty Than They ” British Antislavery Activists Respond to the Crisis in the American Colonies 450
26. Conclusion 474
27. Ian K. Steele’s Calendar of Scholarly Writing, 1966–2006 495
28. Completed Graduate Theses Supervised by I.K. Steele, 1974–2006 507
29. Index 509