Elizabeth Mancke Knihy

Focusing on early modern British Empire communities in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, this comparative study explores the impact of British reforms on political customs in the United States and Canada. Elizabeth Mancke delves into the distinct trajectories of these regions, highlighting how their unique responses to imperial policies shaped their political landscapes. The book offers insights into the complexities of colonial governance and the emergence of differing political identities within the empire.

Was the British Atlantic shaped more by imperial rivalries or by the actions of subnational groups with a variety of economic, social, and religious agendas? The Creation of the British Atlantic World analyzes the interrelationship between these competing explanations for the development of the British Atlantic by examining migration patterns on both the macro and micro level. It also scrutinizes the roles played by trade, religion, ethnicity, and class in linking Atlantic borders and the increasingly complicated legal, intellectual and emotional relationship between the British sovereign and colonial charterholders. Contributors include Joyce E. Chaplin, John E. Crowley, David Barry Gaspar, April Lee Hatfield, James Horn, Ray A. Kea, Elizabeth Mancke, Philip D. Morgan, William M. Offutt, Robert Olwell, Carole Shammas, Wolfgang Splitter, Mark L. Thompson, Karin Wulf, Avihu Zakai.