HI2132: Cultures of Empire: Power and Rule in the Indian and Plantation American Colonies, 1600-1900

Drs Anindita Ghosh and Natalie Zacek
University of Manchester

Week 1 30 Jan Introduction to the course
Week 2 6 Feb England on the eve of empire
Week 3 13 Feb Labour I
Week 4 20 Feb Labour II
Week 5 27 Feb Dress
Week 6 6 Mar Food
Week 7 13 Mar Architecture I
Week 8 20 Mar Architecture II
Week 9 17 Apr Education
Week 10 24 Apr Language
Week 11 1 May Creole identity
Week 12 8 May Conclusion and review

Reading List

General

David Armitage, The Intellectual Origins of the British Empire
James Axtell, The European and the Indian
James Axtell, The Invasion Within
C.A. Bayly, Imperial Meridian
John Blassingame, The Slave Community
T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes, Myne Owne Ground
Carl Bridenbaugh, Vexed and Troubled Englishmen
Richard Bushman, The Refinement of America
James Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten
Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves
Rhys Isaac, The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
Peter Marshall, ed., The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire
James Merrell, The Indians' New World
Richard Middleton, Colonial America
Edmind S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom
Philip D. Morgan, Slave Counterpoint
J.H. Parry, The Age of Reconnaissance
Darrett and Anita Rutman, A Place in Time
Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together
John Michael Vlach, Back of the Big House
Peter H. Wood, Black Majority
Anne Yentsch, A Chesapeake Family and Their Slaves

Labour

Roger D. Abrahams, Singing the Master, ch. 1
Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan, "Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas," in Berlin and Morgan, eds., Cultivation and Culture
W. Jeffrey Bolster, "'Every Inch a Man': Gender in the Lives of African-American Seamen, 1800-1860," in Margaret Creighton and Lisa Norling, eds., Iron Men,Wooden Women
T.H. Breen, "A Changing Labor Force and Race Relations in Virginia, 1660-1710," in Breen, ed., Shaping Southern Society
Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra
Daniel Littlefield, Rice and Slaves
Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom, ch. 3
Philip D. Morgan, "Task and Gang Systems: The Organization of Labor on New World Plantations," in Stephen Innes, ed., Work and Labor in Early America
Tina H. Sheller, "Freemen, Servants, and Slaves: Artisans and the Craft Structure of Revolutionary Baltimore Town," in Howard B. Rock et al., eds., American Artisans
James Sidbury, "Slave Artisans in Richmond, Virginia, 1780-1810," in Rock, et al., eds., American Artisans
Peter H. Wood, Black Majority, ch. 9

Dress

Colin G. Calloway, New Worlds for All, ch. 3
Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves, pp. 281-286
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, pp. 550-561
Erin S. Mackie, "The Colorful Case of the Caribbean Creole," in Jessica Munns and Penny Richards, eds., The Clothes That Wear Us
James Merrell, "The Cast of His Countenance: Reading Andrew Montour," in Ronald Hoffman, et al., eds., Through a Glass Darkly
Jennifer Morgan, "'Some could suckle over their shoulders'," William and Mary Quarterly 54 (1997)
Alice Nash, "Antic Deportments and Indian Postures," in Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, eds., A Centre of Wonders
Beth Fowkes Tobin, Picturing Imperial Power, ch. 3
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, The Age of Homespun

Food

Barbara G. Carson, Ambitious Appetites
Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves, pp. 272-281
Trudy Eden, "Food, Assimilation, and the Malleability of the Human Body in Early Virginia," in Lindman and Tarter, eds., A Centre of Wonders
Jordan Goodman, Tobacco in History
Kim F. Hall, "Culinary Spaces, Colonial Spaces," in Valerie Traub et al., eds., Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
Sidney W. Mintz, Sweetness and Power
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Tastes of Paradise
James Walvin, Fruits of Empire

Architecture

Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves, pp. 287-299
Jay Edwards, "The Origins of Creole Architecture," Winterthur Portfolio
Alice Eley Jones, "Sacred Places and Holy Ground," in Grey Gundaker, ed., Keep Your Head to the Sky
Sidney W. Mintz, "Houses and Yards among Caribbean Peasantries," in Mintz, Caribbean Transformations
Dell Upton, Holy Things and Profane

Education

James Axtell, "The Little Red School" and "Education and Empire," in Axtell, The Invasion Within
Alan J. Bishop, "Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism," in Bill Ashcroft, et al., eds., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader
Richard Drayton, "Knowledge and Empire," in P.J. Marshall, ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. II: The Eighteenth Century
Felix Driver, Geography Militant
Henry Louis Gates, The Signifying Monkey, ch. 4
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, pp. 561-566
James McClellan and Francois Regourd, "The Colonial Machine," Osiris 15 (2000)
Peter H. Wood, "Black Labour, White Rice: Colonial Manpower and African Agricultural Skill in Early Carolina," in T.H. Breen, ed., Shaping Southern Society

Language

William R. Bascom, "Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes," in T.H. Breen, ed., Shaping Southern Society
Ira Berlin, "From Creole to African," William and Mary Quarterly 53 (1996)
Trevor Burnard, "Slave Naming Patterns," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31 (2001)
Margaret Washington Creel, A Peculiar People
Michael A. Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks, ch. 7
Sidney W. Mintz, "The Socio-Historical Background to Pidginization and Creolization, in Dell Hymes, ed., Pidginization and Creolization of Languages
Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside, ch. 7
Michael Mullin, Africa in America, ch. 1
Newbell Niles Puckett, "Names of American Negro Slaves," in Alan Dundes, ed., Mother-Wit from the Laughing Barrel
Richard C. Rath, "Drums and Power," in David Buisseret, ed., Creolization in the Americas
Douglas Taylor, "New Languages for Old in the West Indies," in Michael Horowitz, ed., Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean
Peter H. Wood, Black Majority, ch. 6

Creole identity

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory