This book creates a new framework for the political and intellectual relations between the British Isles and America in a momentous period which witnessed the f

Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, ear

Interest in relations between knowledge, power, and space has a long tradition in a range of disciplines, but it was reinvigorated in the last two decades throu

Between the independence of the colonies and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called "fragments."

This is an interpretative study of the idea of Britain, examining the transformation of a sectarian concept into an imperial ideology forged during a period of