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1997 Seminar Program


The sessions of the 1997 Atlantic History Seminar are listed below. Each presenter's name is linked to an abstract of the paper presented. A full list of Working Paper titles from the Seminars, arranged alphabetically by author, is also available.

[Please note that participants' affiliations are given as of the time of the Seminar and may have changed since then.]


Sunday, August 17
Opening Reception and Dinner
Harvard Faculty Club

Monday, August 18

SESSION 1
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Cultural Contexts of Emerging Governance, I
Chairs: James Hankins, Harvard University
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Antonio Barrera, University of California, Davis
"Spanish Imperial Policy and the Control of Transatlantic Resources, or, The Formation of Early Modern Science"

Lígia Bellini, Federal University of Bahia
"Indigenous Agency and Colonial Encounters in Brazil, 1500–1600: History and Recent Historiography"

SESSION 2
2:00 P.M., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Cultural Contexts of Emerging Governance, II
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Rina Palumbo, Johns Hopkins University
"Imperial Fantasies: The Stuart Conquest of British North America, 1621–c.1650"

Andrew Fitzmaurice, University of Sydney
"The Civic Solution to the Crisis of English Colonisation, 1609–1625"

Tuesday, August 19

SESSION 3
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Colonial Corporatism and State Formation
Chair: Pauline Maier, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Acting Chair: Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University

Leslie Choquette, Assumption College
"Corporatism or Physiocracy? The Trades of French Canada in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"

Elizabeth Mancke, University of Akron
"Colonial Corporations and the Emergence of the British Imperial State"

SESSION 4
2:00 P.M., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Empire and Law: Colonial Innovations
Chair: Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University

Linda L. Sturtz, Beloit College
"Innovation and Tradition in an Imperial-Colonial Contest: Virginia Legislation and the 'settled and known point' of Women's Property Rights"

Daniel Hulsebosch, Harvard University
"Periphery to Center: The Imperial Agents and the Constitution in Eighteenth-Century New York"

Wednesday, August 20

SESSION 5
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Colonial Port Towns and Imperial Rule
Chair: David Hancock, University of Michigan

James Robertson, University of the West Indies, Mona
"Late Seventeenth Century Spanish Town: Building an English City on Spanish Foundations"

Ken Banks, University of North Carolina, Asheville
"Imperial Control and Urban Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century French America"

Nikolaus Böttcher, Freie Universität Berlin
"The British Domination of Havana in 1762–1763 and Its Economic and Political Consequences"

SESSION 6
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Mercantilism: The Case of Bermuda
Chair: Willem Klooster, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden and the Charles Warren Center, Harvard University

Michael J. Jarvis, College of William and Mary
"The Politics of Smuggling: Bermuda's 'Clandestine Trade' with the Dutch West Indies, 1684–1783"

Neil Kennedy, University of Western Ontario
"'By wrangling and jangling a country prospers': The Failure of Bermuda's Claims to the Turks Islands, c. 1678–1804"

Thursday, August 21

SESSION 7
9:30 a.m. Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Imperial Politics and Creole Elites, I
Chair: Stephen Webb, Syracuse University

Michael J. Braddick, University of Sheffield
"Elite Co-Option and State Formation in the British Atlantic World, c. 1530–1700"

Douglas J. Hamilton, University of Aberdeen
"Patterns of Scottish Political Patronage in the British West Indies, c. 1763–c.1800"

SESSION 8
2:00-4:00 p.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Imperial Politics and Creole Elites, II: Britain and the Canadians
Chair: J. M. Bumsted, University of Manitoba

Carolee Pollock, University of Alberta
"His Majesty's Subjects: Political Legitimacy in Quebec, 1763–1774"

Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University
"'The French and Indian are soe much connected that if you disoblidge one ... the other take part': English Governance in the Western Great Lakes, 1760–1780"

Friday, August 22

SESSION 9
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

"Empire" in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University

Thomas Fröschl, Universität Wien
"American Empire—British Empire—Roman Empire: The Meaning of Empire in Late Eighteenth Century Political Discourse in the Atlantic World"

Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire
"The End of Greater Britain? Britain and the Federal Implications of the War of American Independence"

David Armitage, Columbia University
"From the Empire of Great Britain to the British Empire: The Emergence of the British Atlantic Community, c. 1540–1740"

Monday, August 25

SESSION 10
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Governing the Indigenous Peoples, I: The French
Chair: Daniel K. Richter, Dickinson College

Katherine Hermes, Central Connecticut State University
"Governing the Northeast: Algonquian, English and French Jurisdiction, 1575–1775"

Saliha Belmessous, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
"Aspects of the Natives' Instrumentalization by the Colonial Authorities under the French Regime"

SESSION 11
2:00 p.m. Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Governing the Indigenous Peoples, II: The British
Chair: Neal Salisbury, Smith College

Nancy L. Hagedorn, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY
"'A great deal depends upon the Interpreters': Anglo-Iroquois Relations and Imperial Diplomacy in the Colonial Northeast, 1664–1774"

Matthew L. Rhoades, Syracuse University
"Assarigoa's Line: Alexander Spotswood and the Formation of the First American Frontier, 1677–1722"

Tuesday, August 26

SESSION 12
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Imperial Rivalries
Chair: Linda K. Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Princeton University
"Re-Learning the Lessons of 'First Contact': Englishmen and Scots in Darien, 1698–99"

Paul Mapp, Harvard University
"The Unexplored Regions of North America and European Diplomacy, 1699–1763"

Jennifer L. Baszile, University of Connecticut, Storrs
"The Struggle for Colonial Rule in the Age of Imperial Rivalry: The Case of Colonial Florida, 1670–1686"

Wednesday, August 27

SESSION 13
9:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Challenges to Empire
Chair: Richard Dunn, University of Pennsylvania

Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
"Winning the Initiative: The Assemblies of the British Caribbean before 1776"

Michael A. McDonnell, University of Wales, Swansea
"Popular Mobilization and the Coming of Independence and Revolution in Virginia, 1774–1776"

SESSION 14
2:00 p.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Revolution, Reaction, and Transformation: Imperial Legacies
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Linda K. Salvucci, Trinity University, San Antonio
"Stepping Out from the Shadow of Lord Sheffield: Spanish Imperial Appraisals of the Commercial Capacities of the United States, 1783–1807"

Timothy D. Walker, Boston University, and Diogo Gaspar, Arquivo Nacional do Torre do Tombo, Lisbon
"Demands of Empire: The Portuguese Reaction to the American War of Independence: Early Trade Considerations and Diplomatic Relations between Portugal and the United States, 1750–1800"

Laurent Dubois, University of Michigan
"Slave Emancipation and the Limits of Citizenship during the French Revolution"

Thursday, August 28

SESSION 15
10:30 a.m., Robinson Hall Seminar Room

Summary and Interpretation

Members of the Seminar

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