Owen Stanwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1186523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen Stanwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen |
| FAMILY NAME | Stanwood |
| SIGNATURE | STANWOOD O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dreams of silk and wine
The migration of Huguenot refugees to Britain’s North American colonies reveals a bold plan to transform the empire. Administrators hoped that the new arrivals would jumpstart new economic pursuits in the colonies, especially the production of silk and wine. Huguenots themselves embraced the vision, promoting themselves as talented people who could reinvigorate British America. These plans all failed, but they inspired the formation of new Huguen…
The Global Refuge
Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. Exiles fleeing French persecution, they scattered around Europe and beyond following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling in North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This book offers the first global history of the Huguenot diaspora, explaining how and why these refugees became such ubiquitous characters in…
Deadly Virtue
The sixteenth-century French colonization of Florida has rarely attracted much attention from historians of early America. Heather Martel's book seeks to remedy this gap, viewing the colony as a signal event in the development of American religion and racial ideology. In Martel's view, Fort Caroline (on the banks of the St. Johns River in what is now Duval County) was more a Protestant than a French effort, and therefore it influenced future Engl…
Refugee Geopolitics
Aside from their skills with silk and wine, Huguenots promoted themselves as strategic allies after war came to Europe and America in 1689. As experts on French strategy, the refugees believed their assistance would be invaluable in helping Britain and the Netherlands defeat the Sun King. This belief in the Huguenots’ strategic importance sent more of them to imperial border regions. The chapter focuses on three in particular: the Caribbean basin…
Finding Eden
The Huguenots’ turn to new worlds came directly out of their colonial program. French Protestants had long experience with global travel and exploration, and once persecution hit some of them naturally believed they could find refuge overseas. This process began even in the 1660s, when authors like Charles de Rochefort and Henri Duquesne promoted the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, respectively, as promised lands for Huguenots, drawing from utopi…
The Global Refuge
Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. Exiles fleeing French persecution, they scattered around Europe and beyond following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling in North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This book offers the first global history of the Huguenot diaspora, explaining how and why these refugees became such ubiquitous characters in…
A refugee in the service of Empire
The life of Paul Mascarene demonstrates the importance of religious diasporas in building the British imperial state. A Huguenot refugee who became a military officer in Nova Scotia, he attempted to make the empire a force for international Protestantism, even trying to settle some of his fellow Huguenots in the colony. When that plan failed, he became an ambassador to Acadian Catholics, using his French experience to try to build a Protestant em…
Alexander B. Haskell. For God, King, and People
“Renaissance Virginia” does not at first glance seem to be a logical phrase. In the usual story of that troubled colony’s origins, Virginia’s planters, servants, and slaves had little time or inclination for art and philosophy. If there has been one key interpretive insight about Virginia over the years, it has been the centrality of economic motives in its conception—usually contrasted to the godly objectives of New England’s founders. In For Go…
From the Desert to the Refuge
This article follows the transatlantic journey of a minister named Jean-Louis Gibert and through his story illuminates an unexplored chapter in French Atlantic history. A Protestant minister from Languedoc, Gibert worked to create Protestant churches in Saintonge, but during the 1760s he fled France, moving first to England and eventually to South Carolina, where he and several hundred Huguenot refugees founded the frontier town of New Bordeaux. …
Experiencing Exile
New Histories of the Pirates
New Histories of the Pirates Owen Stanwood The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America. By Douglas R. Burgess Jr. Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2014. 301 pages. Cloth, ebook. Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740. By Mark G. Hanna. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 464 pages. C…
Godly Republicanism
Several decades ago, before the rise of revisionism, few scholars doubted that strong links existed between the English Puritan tradition and the rise of republicanism. While Whig historians in England rarely paid much heed to theology, they understood that those on the Calvinist fringes of the church tended to argue most vociferously against the excesses of the Crown. In North America, meanwhile, scholars of New England looked to that region for…
Between Eden and Empire
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763, by Lorena S. Walsh, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2010, xxvi + 704 pp., $70.0
The Empire Reformed
The Empire Reformed describes how, in the era of the Glorious Revolution, imperial leaders and colonial subjects created new political bonds based on their common desire to save English America from the designs of French "papists" and their "savage" Indian allies
Restoration Ireland
The Protestant Moment
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The Protestant Moment
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From the Desert to the Refuge
This article follows the transatlantic journey of a minister named Jean-Louis Gibert and through his story illuminates an unexplored chapter in French Atlantic history. A Protestant minister from Languedoc, Gibert worked to create Protestant churches in Saintonge, but during the 1760s he fled France, moving first to England and eventually to South Carolina, where he and several hundred Huguenot refugees founded the frontier town of New Bordeaux. …
The Protestant Moment
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Restoration Ireland
The Empire Reformed
The Empire Reformed describes how, in the era of the Glorious Revolution, imperial leaders and colonial subjects created new political bonds based on their common desire to save English America from the designs of French "papists" and their "savage" Indian allies
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit
Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763, by Lorena S. Walsh, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2010, xxvi + 704 pp., $70.0
Godly Republicanism
Several decades ago, before the rise of revisionism, few scholars doubted that strong links existed between the English Puritan tradition and the rise of republicanism. While Whig historians in England rarely paid much heed to theology, they understood that those on the Calvinist fringes of the church tended to argue most vociferously against the excesses of the Crown. In North America, meanwhile, scholars of New England looked to that region for…
Between Eden and Empire
Experiencing Exile
New Histories of the Pirates
New Histories of the Pirates Owen Stanwood The Politics of Piracy: Crime and Civil Disobedience in Colonial America. By Douglas R. Burgess Jr. Lebanon, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2014. 301 pages. Cloth, ebook. Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740. By Mark G. Hanna. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. 464 pages. C…
From the Desert to the Refuge
This article follows the transatlantic journey of a minister named Jean-Louis Gibert and through his story illuminates an unexplored chapter in French Atlantic history. A Protestant minister from Languedoc, Gibert worked to create Protestant churches in Saintonge, but during the 1760s he fled France, moving first to England and eventually to South Carolina, where he and several hundred Huguenot refugees founded the frontier town of New Bordeaux. …
Alexander B. Haskell. For God, King, and People
“Renaissance Virginia” does not at first glance seem to be a logical phrase. In the usual story of that troubled colony’s origins, Virginia’s planters, servants, and slaves had little time or inclination for art and philosophy. If there has been one key interpretive insight about Virginia over the years, it has been the centrality of economic motives in its conception—usually contrasted to the godly objectives of New England’s founders. In For Go…
The Global Refuge
Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. Exiles fleeing French persecution, they scattered around Europe and beyond following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling in North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This book offers the first global history of the Huguenot diaspora, explaining how and why these refugees became such ubiquitous characters in…
A refugee in the service of Empire
The life of Paul Mascarene demonstrates the importance of religious diasporas in building the British imperial state. A Huguenot refugee who became a military officer in Nova Scotia, he attempted to make the empire a force for international Protestantism, even trying to settle some of his fellow Huguenots in the colony. When that plan failed, he became an ambassador to Acadian Catholics, using his French experience to try to build a Protestant em…
Refugee Geopolitics
Aside from their skills with silk and wine, Huguenots promoted themselves as strategic allies after war came to Europe and America in 1689. As experts on French strategy, the refugees believed their assistance would be invaluable in helping Britain and the Netherlands defeat the Sun King. This belief in the Huguenots’ strategic importance sent more of them to imperial border regions. The chapter focuses on three in particular: the Caribbean basin…
Finding Eden
The Huguenots’ turn to new worlds came directly out of their colonial program. French Protestants had long experience with global travel and exploration, and once persecution hit some of them naturally believed they could find refuge overseas. This process began even in the 1660s, when authors like Charles de Rochefort and Henri Duquesne promoted the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean, respectively, as promised lands for Huguenots, drawing from utopi…
Dreams of silk and wine
The migration of Huguenot refugees to Britain’s North American colonies reveals a bold plan to transform the empire. Administrators hoped that the new arrivals would jumpstart new economic pursuits in the colonies, especially the production of silk and wine. Huguenots themselves embraced the vision, promoting themselves as talented people who could reinvigorate British America. These plans all failed, but they inspired the formation of new Huguen…
The Global Refuge
Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. Exiles fleeing French persecution, they scattered around Europe and beyond following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, settling in North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This book offers the first global history of the Huguenot diaspora, explaining how and why these refugees became such ubiquitous characters in…
Deadly Virtue
The sixteenth-century French colonization of Florida has rarely attracted much attention from historians of early America. Heather Martel's book seeks to remedy this gap, viewing the colony as a signal event in the development of American religion and racial ideology. In Martel's view, Fort Caroline (on the banks of the St. Johns River in what is now Duval County) was more a Protestant than a French effort, and therefore it influenced future Engl…
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