To join a conversation, one must know what is being said. Writing Early America is a field report on the current state of the historiography on the colonial era—from the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 to the end of the American Revolution around 1784.
Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Burnard provides an unprecedented analysis of the direction of the field encompassed by the popular hashtag #Vast Early America. He examines scholarship on the most important areas of current research—Indigenous history, slavery and race, and gender. Burnard also demonstrates how important imperialism has become in providing a framework for colonial American history, especially for new scholarship on the American War of Independence, which historians increasingly see in its context as part of a broader Age of Revolutions.
This is the first book in over thirty years to offer advanced undergraduate and graduate students and scholars a comprehensive guide to the historiography of early America.
Table of Content
Introduction
The Historiography of Early America
Early American History in Academic Journals
#Vast Early America? Themes and Methods
The World of Early America (1): Wealth, Commerce and Environment
The World of Early America (2): Slavery
The World of Early America (3): Indigenous Peoples
The World of Early America (4): Gender
Continuity, Stability and Prosperity: Eighteenth-Century British History
Managing Difference and Engaging Power: The Imperial Turn
The American Revolution
Conclusion
About the author
Trevor Burnard is the Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation at the University of Hull, Director of the Wilberforce Institute, and the author of Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820.
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