TY - JOUR
AB - Book Reviews 1167 brings to light the shipboard experience and its enabled readers to follow up on more of its place in the larger tradition of Atlantic world fascinating nuances. It focuses on and traces history. the development of the plantation model. Yes, by around 1730, the Low Country and the Amy Mitchell-Cook British Caribbean shared a plantation system University of West Florida built on supplying the empire with raw mate- Pensacola, Florida rial cash crops by large-scale monoculture and doi: 10.1093/jahist/jav761 slave labor. Even so, this is not sufficient to explain the coherence of the region across two hundred Hubs of Empire: The Southeastern Lowcountry years. Look for it, and the birth of the planta- and British Caribbean. By Matthew Mulcahy. tion system is easy to find. The volume does (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, not seek to question those other behemoths of 2014. x, 244 pp. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $24.95.) colonial Caribbean history: that a Barbadian sugar revolution in the 1640s, trade, enrich- This, Matthew Mulcahy’s second monograph, and its predecessorH, urricanes and Society ment, and expansion were the raison d’être of British adventurism. Was it really the case in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 that Britons 
TI - Anglicizing America: Empire, Revolution, Republic
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jav763
DA - 2016-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/anglicizing-america-empire-revolution-republic-LnQG8GgrFb
SP - 1167
EP - 1168
VL - 102
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -