Elliot – Relevant Articles




Timothy Hall Breen, The Non-Existent Controversy: Puritan and Anglican Attitudes on Work and Wealth, 1600-1640, Church History, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Sep., 1966), pp. 273-287 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3162308

  • **Comparisons between Puritans and Anglicans and the supposed separation between the two as antagonists in class structure and matters of work and wealth**

Nicholas Canny, Writing Atlantic History; or, Reconfiguring the History of Colonial British America, The Journal of American History, Vol. 86, No. 3, The Nation and Beyond: Transnational Perspectives on United States History: A Special Issue (Dec., 1999), pp. 1093-1114 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2568607

  • **Belief that colonial history is transatlantic; identified broadening of geographic focus, narrowing of chronology; redefining American colonial history as history of British America; positive status of Atlantic field**

Jack P. Greene, The American Revolution, The American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 1 (Feb., 2000), pp. 93-102 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2652437

  • **Examines conditions of transatlantic polity of British Empire as authority from the peripheries moving outwards as opposed to imperial center outwards; identifies revolution as a British revolution; and examines how loose early-modern imperial polity vs. radical political actually led to a conservative revolution**

John M. Murrin, In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Slave, Maybe There was Room Even for Deference, The Journal of American History, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Jun., 1998), pp. 86-91 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2568433

  • **Comparing and contrasting ideas of Aaron Fogleman and Michael Zuckerman on questions of dependency and deference in colonial America and whether or not the revolution made a difference in both cases; free labor vs. slave labor before and after war; elites and everyone else**

Mary Beth Norton, The Loyalists’ Image of England. Ideal and Reality, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Summer, 1971), pp. 62-71 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4048414

  • **Focus on cultural relationship between colonies and mother country and comparison of the two cultures by way of narratives**

Anthony Pagden, The Empire’s New Clothes: From Empire to Federation, Yesterday to Today, Common Knowledge,12.1 (2006) pp. 36-46 – Stable URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/common_knowledge/v012/12.1pagden.html#authbio

  • **Comparing of empires and the shrinking of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shift from a Western world empire to a Western federation**

Michael Zuckerman, The Fabrication of Identity in Early America, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr., 1977), pp. 183-214 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1925313

  • **Reevaluation of traditional social/communal norms and models and their destruction once they reached the New World; polarization of English with natives/Africans as opposed to interracial breeding; Old World vs. New World Protestantism**

Edmund S. Morgan, The American Revolution: Revisions in Need of Revising, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan., 1957), pp. 3-15 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1917368

  • **Redefining roles for imperial historians, such as the explanation of key revolutionaries, roles, and fixing problems of people like Charles Beard**

David J. Weber, The Spanish Legacy in North America and the Historical Imagination, The Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 5-24 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/970249

  • **Writing about Hispanophobia by Anglo Americans and fear of mixed races; contestation of Spanish frontier history in North America**

Philip D. Morgan, Work and Culture: The Task System and the World of Lowcountry Blacks, 1700 to 1880, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1982), pp. 564-599 – Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919004

  • **Focus on experience of slave workers without a top-down managerial approach; how system arose and the structures that were in place, as well as ramifications for model; comparison to other Caribbean systems**
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