The Structure of Atlantic Societies

2002 Annual Seminar

Tuesday, August 6

SESSION 1

Perceptions from Abroad

Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Sandra Rebok, Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid
"Alexander von Humboldt and the Colonial Societies of Spanish America"

Daniel Kilbride, John Carroll University
"From Provincial to National Identity: American Leisure Travelers in Europe, circa 1700-1820"

SESSION 2

Rebellion and Social Order on the Spanish Frontier
Chair: Kenneth Andrien, The Ohio State University

David T. Garrett, Reed College
"The Loyalist Inca and Túpac Amaru: Ethnicity, Class, and Allegiance in Bourbon Cusco"

Margarita Gascón, Centro Regionale de Investigaciones, Argentina
"Frontier Societies: A View from the Southern Frontier of the Indies"

Wednesday, August 7

SESSION 3

Ethnogeography: Race, Space, and Society
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

James Carson, Queen's University, Ontario
"Old Worlds into New: An Ethnogeography of the Colonial South"

David L. Preston, College of William and Mary
"The Trojan Horse of Empire: Imperial Crisis in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1760-1774"

Thursday, August 8

SESSION 4

Purity and Corruption of Blood
Chair: R. Douglas Cope, Brown University

María Elena Morales, Universidad de Barcelona
"The Estatutos de Limpieza de Sangre in the Province of Venezuela, 1609-1820"

Ben Vinson III, Barnard College, Columbia University
"Studying Race from the Margins: The 'Forgotten Castes': Lobos, Moriscos, Coyotes, Moros, and Chinos in Colonial Mexico"

SESSION 5

Mexico City: Race and Social Organization
Chair: R. Douglas Cope, Brown University

Francisco A. Ortega, University of Wisconsin at Madison
"The Staging of the Fatalidad lastimosa, or the Creole Nation's Lack of Viability"

Matthew D. O'Hara, University of California at San Diego
"A Flock Divided: Ecclesiastical Reform, Religious Practice, and Local Identity in Mexico City, 1749-1810"

Friday, August 9

SESSION 6

The Transplantation of British Society
Chair: Ronald Hoffman, OIEAHC and the College of William and Mary

Marsha L. Hamilton, SUNY—Stony Brook
"Scottish Communities in New England and the North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century"

John Smolenski, University of California at Davis
" 'Bastard Quakers' in America: The Keithian Schism and the Creation of Creole Quakerism in Early Pennsylvania"

SESSION 7

Elite Formation in the North American South
Chair: Ronald Hoffman, OIEAHC and the College of William and Mary

Christopher L. Doyle, University of Northern Colorado
" 'Without a Single Recommendation': Trans-Atlantic Gentility and Success in Revolutionary Virginia"

J. Elliott Russo, Independent Scholar
" 'Being Nearly Related': Authority and Kinship in Colonial Maryland"

Bradford J. Wood, Eastern Kentucky University
" 'Carrying Everything before Them': The Rise of the Lower CapeFear Elite, 1725-1775"

Saturday, August 10

WORKSHOP SESSION

Monday, August 12

SESSION 8

Free Blacks in Portuguese, British, French, and Spanish America
Chair: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

Mariana L. R. Dantas, Johns Hopkins University
"Slave Manumission and Urban Development in Baltimore, Maryland, and Sabará, Minas Gerais, 1750-1810"

Dayo Nicole Mitchell, University of Virginia
" 'The Middle Situation': Free People of Color in Dominica and Trinidad, 1800-1825"

SESSION 9

Poor Whites in Jamaica and Colonial Ecuador
Chair: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University

Christer Petley, University of Warwick, UK
" 'The best poor man's country in the world'? The Position and Aspirations of Non-Sugar-Producing Landowners in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Slave Society"

Cynthia E. Milton, University of British Columbia
"Poverty and the Politics of Colonialism: 'Poor Whites, Their Petitions, and the Erosion of Privilege in Late Colonial Quito, 1678-1800"

Tuesday, August 13

SESSION 10

The Dutch in America: Rural and Urban
Chair: Cathy Matson, Delaware University

Kathryn A. Clippinger, Cornell University
"Dutch Families, Black and White: The Structure of Afro-Dutch Households on the New York Frontier, 1720-1820"

Dennis J. Maika, Fox Lane High School, Bedford, NY
"Leadership in Manhattan's Merchant Community: Office-Holding Patterns and the Persistence of a Merchant Elite"

Wednesday, August 14

SESSION 11

Race, Class, and Social Structure
Chair: Andrew O'Shaughnessy, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh

Miranda Spieler, Columbia University
"The Guillotine Sèche: Mechanisms of Proscription in Revolutionary France and French Guiana, 1791-1799"

Rebecca Hartkopf Schloss, Duke University
" 'The class of white subalterns': Elite White Efforts to Control Martinique's Male petits blancs, 1802-1830"

Meri L. Clark, Princeton University
" 'The blight of bad examples': Morals Legislation and Social Conflict in Colombian Schooling, 1800-1830"

SESSION 12

Urban Oligarchies and Metropolitan Relations
Chair: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Sheryllynne Haggerty, National Maritime Museum/Brunel University, UK
"The Structure of the Philadelphia Trading Community on the Transition from Colony to State"

Marcela Ternavasio, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
"New Recruitment Methods of the Governing Elite in Rio de la Plata between 1810 and 1825"

Thursday, August 15

SESSION 13

Summary and Interpretation
Members of the Seminar