Colonial history and national history: Reflections on a continuing problem

William and Mary Quarterly

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 235-250

  Greene, Jack P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (38)

1. Michael Warner, "What's Colonial about Colonial America?" in Possible Pasts: Becoming Colonial in Early America, ed. Robert Blair St. George (Ithaca, N. Y., 2000), 50.
2. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (London, 1998), 186-92 ("widely used, " 186)
3. Nicholas Thomas, Colonialisms Culture: Anthropology, Travel and Government (Princeton, N. J., 1994), 49 ("peculiarly modern")
4. Peter Hulme, "Postcolonial Theory and Early America: An Approach from the Caribbean, " in St. George, Possible Pasts, 33-48 ("the relevance, " 35).
5. Though Edward W. Said's text is the foundation for postcolonial studies, Said did not use the term postcolonial (Said, Orientalism [London, 1978]).
6. One of its earliest uses is by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, The Post-Colonial Critic: Interviews, Strategies, Dialogues, ed. Sarah Harasym (New York, 1990).
7. Robert J. C. Young offers a detailed and thoughtful history of the development of postcolonial studies (Young, Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction [Malden, Mass., 2001]).
8. An early and still one of the most thoughtfully and contextually grounded examples of the use of postcolonial theory by a student of the early Americas is Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (London, 1986).
9. Daiva Stasiulis and Nira Yuval-Davis, "Introduction: Beyond Dichotomies - Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class in Settler Societies, " in Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Class, ed. Stasiulis and Yuval-Davis (London, 1995), 1-38 ("'conventional' colonies, " 2; "as societies, " 3; "absorbed, " 8)
10. Young, Postcolonialism, 17 ("diversity of colonialism"), 79 ("settler rebellions")
11. Jürgen Osterhammel, Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, trans. Shelley L. Frisch, 2d ed. (Princeton, N. J., 2005), 7 ("cores")
12. Hulme, "Postcolonial Theory and Early America, " 37 ("primarily fought").
13. She refers to the study of these processes within Europe and then their expansion overseas as "imperium studies" (Fuchs, "Imperium Studies: Theorizing Early Modern Expansion, " in Postcolonial Moves: Medieval through Modern, ed. Patricia Clare Ingham and Michelle R. Warren [New York, 2003], 71-90).
14. Osterhammel, Colonialism, 15-16 ("'peripheral' societies, " 15), 42 ("most violent form"), 75 ("little more")
15. Stasiulis and Yuval-Davis, "Introduction, " 7 ("varying levels")
16. Dolores Janiewski, "Gendering, Racializing and Classifying Settler Colonization in the United States, 1590-1990, " in Stasiulis and Yuval-Davis, Unsettling Settler Societies, 141 ("from the time").
17. Anna Johnston and Alan Lawson, "Settler Colonies, " in A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray (Malden, Mass., 2000), 360-76.
18. For earlier European manifestations of state building, see Fuchs, "Imperium Studies, " 71-90.
19. Excellent brief analyses of the findings of this literature may be found in James H. Merrell, "Indian History during the English Colonial Era, " in A Companion to Colonial America, ed. Daniel Vickers (Malden, Mass., 2003), 118-37
20. Philip D. Morgan, "African Americans, " ibid., 138-71.
21. The foundational texts in early modern state formation theory are Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990 (Cambridge, Mass., 1990)
22. Mark Greengrass, ed., Conquest and Coalescence: The Shaping of the State in Early Modern Europe (London, 1991).
23. See also the important article by J. H. Elliott, "A Europe of Composite Monarchies, " Past and Present, no. 137 (November 1992): 48-71.
24. The application of state formation theory to all early modern American empires is treated at greater length in Jack P. Greene, "Negotiated Authorities: The Problem of Governance in the Extended Polities of the Early Modern Atlantic World, " in Negotiated Authorities: Essays in Colonial Political and Constitutional History (Charlottesville, Va., 1994), 1-24.
25. For a case study of the British Empire, see Greene, Peripheries and Center: Constitutional Development in the Extended Polities of the British Empire and the United States, 1607-1788 (Athens, Ga., 1986).
26. See also Christine Daniels and Michael V. Kennedy, eds., Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the Americas, 1500-1820 (New York, 2002).
27. On the adaptation of English law, see Greene, "'By Their Laws Shall Ye Know Them': Law and Identity in Colonial British America, " Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33, no. 2 (Autumn 2002): 247-60.
28. Alexander B. Haskell is the first to interpret the history of any colonial British American polity in terms of state-formation theory (Haskell, "The Affections of the People': Ideology and the Politics of State Building in Colonial Virginia, 1607-1754" [Ph. D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 2004]).
29. David C. Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (Lawrence, Kans., 2003), ix, xii, 26-27, 35, 257-58, 297.
30. Max M. Edling, A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U. S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (New York, 2003).
31. J. R. Pole, ed., The Federalist (Indianapolis, Ind., 2005), 90
32. Edling, Revolution in Favor of Government, 223-24, 227-29
33. James Brown Scott, in Hendrickson, Peace Pact, 285.
34. Janiewski, "Gendering, Racializing and Classifying Settler Colonization, " 132, 136 (quotation).
35. Hendrickson, Peace Pact, ix.
36. See the excellent works by George Dargo, Jefferson's Louisiana: Politics and the Clash of Legal Traditions (Cambridge, Mass., 1975)
37. Stuart Banner, Legal Systems in Conflict: Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1860 (Norman, Okla., 2000).
38. See also Jack P. Greene, "The Cultural Dimensions of Political Transfers: An Aspect of the European Occupation of the Americas, " Early American Studies (forthcoming).