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An Entangled World: Loyalties, Allegiances, and Affiliations in the Long Eighteenth Century: Special Issue Introduction

An Entangled World: Loyalties, Allegiances, and Affiliations in the Long Eighteenth Century:... An Entangled World: Loyalties, Allegiances, and Affiliations in the Long Eighteenth Century Special Issue Introduction JERUSHA WESTBURY New York University ANELISE HANSON SHROUT New York University This issue of Early American Studies is the product of two conferences sponsored by the Atlantic History program at New York University. In the winter of 2007 ``Rethinking Boundaries: Transforming Methods and Approaches in Atlantic History'' interrogated the categories of analysis that frame Atlantic history and asked conference participants to question whether Atlantic history has opened new perspectives on the early modern world, or whether it has simply recast older imperial histories. One criticism that emerged from that conference was that ending the history of the Atlantic world in the mid-nineteenth century with the end of the ``Age of Revolutions'' reified the centrality of European empires by setting up their inception and decline as starting and ending points of Atlantic history.1 This issue was made possible with the support of the Atlantic Workshop at NYU. We'd particularly like to thank Karen Kupperman, Christian Crouch, Jenny Shaw, Kevin Arlyck, Greg Childs, Sophie Lemercier Goddard, Devin Jacobs, Nathalie Pierre, Gabriel Rocha, Aaron Slater, and Katy Walker, who provided thoughtful and invaluable feedback throughout this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal University of Pennsylvania Press

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An Entangled World: Loyalties, Allegiances, and Affiliations in the Long Eighteenth Century Special Issue Introduction JERUSHA WESTBURY New York University ANELISE HANSON SHROUT New York University This issue of Early American Studies is the product of two conferences sponsored by the Atlantic History program at New York University. In the winter of 2007 ``Rethinking Boundaries: Transforming Methods and Approaches in Atlantic History'' interrogated the categories of analysis that frame Atlantic history and asked conference participants to question whether Atlantic history has opened new perspectives on the early modern world, or whether it has simply recast older imperial histories. One criticism that emerged from that conference was that ending the history of the Atlantic world in the mid-nineteenth century with the end of the ``Age of Revolutions'' reified the centrality of European empires by setting up their inception and decline as starting and ending points of Atlantic history.1 This issue was made possible with the support of the Atlantic Workshop at NYU. We'd particularly like to thank Karen Kupperman, Christian Crouch, Jenny Shaw, Kevin Arlyck, Greg Childs, Sophie Lemercier Goddard, Devin Jacobs, Nathalie Pierre, Gabriel Rocha, Aaron Slater, and Katy Walker, who provided thoughtful and invaluable feedback throughout this

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Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary JournalUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Dec 29, 2013

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