Anglicizing America : Empire, Revolution, Republic.

Cover -- Anglicizing America -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. ANGLICIZATION -- Chapter 1. England and Colonial America: A Novel Theory of the American Revolution -- Chapter 2. A Synthesis Useful and Compelling: Anglicization and the Achievement of John M. Murrin -- PART II. EMPIRE -- Chapter 3. "In Great Slavery and Bondage": White Labor and the Development of Plantation Slavery in British America -- Chapter 4. Anglicizing the League: The Writing of Cadwallader Colden's History of the Five Indian Nations -- Chapter 5. A Medieval Response to a Wilderness Need: Anglicizing Warfare in Colonial America -- PART III. REVOLUTION -- Chapter 6. Anglicanism, Dissent, and Toleration in Eighteenth-Century British Colonies -- Chapter 7. Anglicization Against the Empire: Revolutionary Ideas and Identity in Townshend Crisis Massachusetts -- PART IV. REPUBLIC -- Chapter 8. Racial Walls: Race and the Emergence of American White Nationalism -- Chapter 9. De-Anglicization: The Jeffersonian Attack on an American Naval Establishment -- Chapter 10. Anglicization and the American Taxpayer, c. 1763-1815 -- Conclusion. Anglicization Reconsidered -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

Anglicizing America revisits the theory of Anglicization and reconsiders its application to the lives and histories of the Atlantic world, from Britain to the Caribbean to the western wildernesses, at key moments before, during, and after the American Revolution.

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