# Ideas of Empire, Imperial Politics, and the Governance of the Colonies: The European Powers in America **1997 Annual Seminar** **Monday, August 18** **SESSION 1** ## **Cultural Contexts of Emerging Governance, I** Chairs: ## **James Hankins**, Harvard University **Bernard Bailyn**, Harvard University **Antonio Barrera**, University of California, Davis ["Spanish Imperial Policy and the Control of Transatlantic Resources, or, The Formation of Early Modern Science"](/Barrera-wp97001 "Spanish Imperial Politics and the Control of Transatlantic Resources or the Formation of Early Modern Science") **Lígia Bellini**, Federal University of Bahia ["Indigenous Agency and Colonial Encounters in Brazil, 1500–1600: History and Recent Historiography"](/Bellini%20-%20WP%2097002 "Indigenous Agency and Colonial Encounters in Brazil, 1500-1600: History and Recent Historiography") **SESSION 2** **Cultural Contexts of Emerging Governance, II** **Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, HarvardUniversity **Rina Palumbo**, Johns Hopkins University "Imperial Fantasies: The Stuart Conquest of British North America, 1621–c.1650" **Andrew Fitzmaurice**, University of Sydney ["The Civic Solution to the Crisis of English Colonisation, 1609–1625"](/Fitzmaurice%20-%20WP%2097004 "The Civic Solution to the Crisis of English Colonisation, 1609-1625") **Tuesday, August 19** **SESSION 3** **Colonial Corporatism and State Formation** **Chair**: **Pauline Maier**, Massachusetts Institute of Technology **Acting Chair**: **Stanley N. Katz**, Princeton University **Leslie Choquette**, Assumption College ["Corporatism or Physiocracy? The Trades of French Canada in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries"](/Choquette%20-%20WP%2097005 "Corporatism or Physiocracy? The Trades of French Canada in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries") **Elizabeth Mancke**, University of Akron "Colonial Corporations and the Emergence of the BritishImperialState" **SESSION 4** **Empire and Law: Colonial Innovations** **Chair**: **Stanley N. Katz**, Princeton University **Linda L. Sturtz**, Beloit College "Innovation and Tradition in an Imperial-Colonial Contest: Virginia Legislation and the 'settled and known point' of Women's Property Rights" **Daniel Hulsebosch**, Harvard University "Periphery to Center: The Imperial Agents and the Constitution in Eighteenth-Century New York" **Wednesday, August 20** **SESSION 5** **Colonial Port Towns and Imperial Rule** **Chair**: **David Hancock**, University of Michigan **James Robertson**, University of the West Indies, Mona "Late Seventeenth Century Spanish Town: Building an English City on Spanish Foundations" **Ken Banks**, University of North Carolina, Asheville ["Imperial Control and Urban Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century French America"](/Banks-wp97010 "Imperial Control and Urban Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century French America") **Nikolaus Böttcher**, Freie Universität Berlin ["The British Domination of Havana in 1762–1763 and Its Economic and Political Consequences"](/Bottcher%20-%20WP%2097011 "The British Domination of Havana in 1762-1763 and Its Economic and Political Consequences") **SESSION 6** **Mercantilism: The Case of Bermuda** **Chair**: **Willem Klooster**, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden and the Charles Warren Center, Harvard University **Michael J. Jarvis**, College of William and Mary "The Politics of Smuggling: Bermuda's 'Clandestine Trade' with the Dutch West Indies, 1684–1783" **Neil Kennedy**, University of Western Ontario "'By wrangling and jangling a country prospers': The Failure of Bermuda's Claims to the Turks Islands, c. 1678–1804" **Thursday, August 21** **SESSION 7** **Imperial Politics and Creole Elites, I** **Chair**: **Stephen Webb**, Syracuse University **Michael J. Braddick**, University of Sheffield ["Elite Co-Option and State Formation in the British Atlantic World, c. 1530–1700"](/Braddick%20-%20WP%2097014 "Elite Co-Option and State Formation in the British Atlantic World, c. 1530-1700") **Douglas J. Hamilton**, University of Aberdeen "Patterns of Scottish Political Patronage in the British West Indies, c. 1763–c.1800" **SESSION 8** **Imperial Politics and Creole Elites, II: Britain and the Canadians** **Chair**: **J. M. Bumsted**, University of Manitoba **Carolee Pollock**, University of Alberta "His Majesty's Subjects: Political Legitimacy in Quebec, 1763–1774" **Susan Sleeper-Smith**, Michigan State University "'The French and Indian are soe much connected that if you disoblidge one ... the other take part': English Governance in the Western Great Lakes, 1760–1780" **Friday, August 22** **SESSION 9** **"Empire" in the Eighteenth Century** **Chair**: **Jack P. Greene**, Johns Hopkins University **Thomas Fröschl**, Universität Wien "American Empire—British Empire—Roman Empire: The Meaning of Empire in Late Eighteenth Century Political Discourse in the Atlantic World" **Eliga Gould**, University of New Hampshire "The End of Greater Britain? Britain and the Federal Implications of the War of American Independence" **David Armitage**, Columbia University ["From the Empire of Great Britain to the British Empire: The Emergence of the British Atlantic Community, c. 1540–1740"](/Armitage%20-%20WP%2097020 "From the Empire of Great Britain to the British Empire: The Emergence of the British Atlantic Community, c. 1540-1740") **Monday, August 25** **SESSION 10** **Governing the Indigenous Peoples, I: The French** **Chair**: **Daniel K. Richter**, Dickinson College **Katherine Hermes**, Central Connecticut State University "Governing the Northeast: Algonquian, English and French Jurisdiction, 1575–1775" **Saliha Belmessous**, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ["Aspects of the Natives' Instrumentalization by the Colonial Authorities under the French Regime"](/Belmessous%20-%20WP%2097022 "Aspects of the Natives' Instrumentalization by the Colonial Authorities under the French Regime") **SESSION 11** **Governing the Indigenous Peoples, II: The British** **Chair**: **Neal Salisbury**, Smith College **Nancy L. Hagedorn**, St. John's University, Jamaica, NY "'A great deal depends upon the Interpreters': Anglo-Iroquois Relations and Imperial Diplomacy in the Colonial Northeast, 1664–1774" **Matthew L. Rhoades**, Syracuse University "Assarigoa's Line: Alexander Spotswood and the Formation of the First American Frontier, 1677–1722 **Tuesday, August 26** **SESSION 12** **Imperial Rivalries** **Chair**: **Linda K. Salvucci**, Trinity University, San Antonio **Ignacio Gallup-Diaz**, Princeton University "Re-Learning the Lessons of 'First Contact': Englishmen and Scots in Darien, 1698–99" **Paul Mapp**, Harvard University "The Unexplored Regions of North America and European Diplomacy, 1699–1763" **Jennifer L. Baszile**, University of Connecticut, Storrs ["The Struggle for Colonial Rule in the Age of Imperial Rivalry: The Case of Colonial Florida, 1670–1686"](/Baszile-wp97027 "The Struggle for Colonial Rule in the Age of Imperial Rivalry: The Case of Colonial Florida, 1670-1686") **Wednesday, August 27** **SESSION 13** **Challenges to Empire** **Chair**: **Richard Dunn**, University of Pennsylvania **Andrew J. O'Shaughnessy**, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh "Winning the Initiative: The Assemblies of the British Caribbean before 1776" **Michael A. McDonnell**, University of Wales, Swansea "Popular Mobilization and the Coming of Independence and Revolution in Virginia, 1774–1776" **SESSION 14** **Revolution, Reaction, and Transformation: Imperial Legacies** **Chair**: **Bernard Bailyn**, HarvardUniversity **Linda K. Salvucci**, Trinity University, San Antonio "Stepping Out from the Shadow of Lord Sheffield: Spanish Imperial Appraisals of the Commercial Capacities of the United States, 1783–1807" **Timothy D. Walker**, Boston University, and **Diogo Gaspar**, Arquivo Nacional do Torre do Tombo, Lisbon "Demands of Empire: The Portuguese Reaction to the American War of Independence: Early Trade Considerations and Diplomatic Relations between Portugal and the United States, 1750–1800" **Laurent Dubois**, University of Michigan ["Slave Emancipation and the Limits of Citizenship during the French Revolution"](/Dubois%20-%20WP%2097032 "Slave Emancipation and the Limits of Citizenship during the French Revolution") **Thursday, August 28** **SESSION 15** **Summary and Interpretation** Members of the Seminar