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The role of proprietorships or ‘private’ colonies in imperial development has not received the attention it deserves, notwithstanding recent scholarly emphasis on ‘state-building’. The continued use of these ‘private’ devices, even as early modern European nation-states grew more potent, is not only interesting, but is indeed normative though invariably missing from modern studies of empire. This collection provides in-depth analyses of the workings of the proprietorships themselves (rather than proprietary colonies) and in studies ranging from South Carolina to Nieuw Nederland to French West Africa to Brasil, broadens this discussion beyond British North America.
Contributors include: Mickaël Augeron, Kenneth Banks, Sarah Barber, Philip Boucher, Olivier Caporossi, Leslie Choquette, David Dewar, Jaap Jacobs, Maxine N. Lurie, Debra A. Meyers, L.H. Roper, James O’Neil Spady, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Cécile Vidal, and Laurent Vidal.
Contributors include: Mickaël Augeron, Kenneth Banks, Sarah Barber, Philip Boucher, Olivier Caporossi, Leslie Choquette, David Dewar, Jaap Jacobs, Maxine N. Lurie, Debra A. Meyers, L.H. Roper, James O’Neil Spady, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Cécile Vidal, and Laurent Vidal.
Price: $185.00
Pages: 426
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
23 February 2007
ISBN: 9789004156760
Format: Hardcover
"In the introduction, the editors attempt to make sense of the prevalence of proprietary ventures, their diverse functions, the meanings of success and failure in the Atlantic world, and what these enterprises can tell us about early modern political developments, both within Europe and in the Americas. They are self-consciously provocative and suggestive, and problematic in their invocation of modernization. But the issues they raise deserve further consideration, and this book will assure a significant place for their ideas in future scholarship." - Elizabeth Mancke, in: New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, vol. 84 (2010) no. 1-2, 107-109
L.H. Roper, Ph.D. (1992) in History, University of Rochester, is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York–New Paltz. He is the author of Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662–1729 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Ph.D. (1995) in American Civilization, Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle is professor at the Université de Paris 8. He is the author of From New Babylon to Edenm, The Huguenots and their Migration to Colonial South Carolina (2006) and co-editor of Memory and Identity. The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora (2003).
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Ph.D. (1995) in American Civilization, Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle is professor at the Université de Paris 8. He is the author of From New Babylon to Edenm, The Huguenots and their Migration to Colonial South Carolina (2006) and co-editor of Memory and Identity. The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora (2003).