Emma Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0749-3701 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Semiquincentennial and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Urban America
This chapter focuses on the urban engines of the Revolution, America’s cities. Exploring the whole panorama of urban life provides a proper understanding of the role towns played in setting the Revolution in motion. Towns were anchors of an Atlantic world in which, as dynamic and expanding places, they were a source of novelty, tension, and disorder. The question is, therefore, why and how did this dynamic fuel a revolutionary movement in the thi…
Coast-Wise
This essay asks if historians of early North America have paid enough attention to coastal regions. It suggests that while not exactly neglected, the Atlantic littoral remains an under-theorized space that is often overlooked in favor of inland spaces. Coasts possessed some of the qualities of a borderland, even though colonists did everything they could to fix them in time, in space, and in ownership. Regarding coasts more intentionally as a par…
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years’ War contains thirty-eight essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years’ War (1756–1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war—Europe, South Asia, and the Americas—treating each theatre as distinct from each other but often linked in ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward. Chapters trace the caus…
Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War
Early Modern Atlantic Cities
The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and t…
Capitalism and its American Incarnation: Discussion of Emma Hart, Trading Spaces: the Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
This forum includes three assessments of Emma Hart’s Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism and a response by the author. These analyses consider the book’s tracking of the formation of an American commercial system that, it argues, occurred in conjunction with the creation of the independent United States
The Commercial Worlds of Early America
By the eighteenth century, North America thrived on its global commercial connections. For colonists like Benjamin Fuller, a Philadelphia dealer, and Thomas Nightingale, a South Carolina trader, these connections were the engine of their working lives. Over the middle of the eighteenth century, both men constructed complex business networks as they made their way by buying and selling a huge variety of commodities with an equally eclectic variety…
Cities, States, and Citizens in the Atlantic World: Towards a New Narrative
In his book Mark Peterson presents an innovative perspective on the development of Boston and its New England hinterland as an early modern city-state. His purpose was to tell the story of Boston in its own right, shedding US national history as the dominant interpretative framework. The four reviewers pick up various strands, focusing, among others, on the validity of the city-state concept, especially as Boston did not become an incorporated ci…
Digging down into the global urban past
In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early mod…
Pleece, Khan and Jones, Freedom Bound: Escaping Slavery in Scotland
Atlantic and Local: Scales of Interdependence in Eighteenth Century Charleston, South Carolina
Using Charleston, South Carolina, USA, as a case-study, this article argues that this interplay of scales and, more specifically unequal scales, was just as important to fostering the growth of globally-connected cities in the early modern Atlantic. In the course of the eighteenth century, Charleston grew from a few thousand inhabitants to one of the largest cities in the North Atlantic with a population of roughly 15,000 at the first United Stat…
The Urban and the Global in the Early Modern Period in a Comparative Perspective
This dossier argues that the historical phenomena of the urban and the global have interacted in a dialogical fashion: urban dynamics sustained the creation of a modern and globally connected world while the global movement of people, goods, ideas, and practices helped to define urban realities and ideals. The perspective that emphasizes the interconnection between the city and globalization-the global city-is prevalent in urban studies that focu…
Kenneth E. Lewis. The Carolina Backcountry Venture: Tradition, Capital, and Circumstance in the Development of Camden and the Wateree Valley, 1740–1810
The product of a lifetime’s research in the region, this detailed account of the development of Camden and its environs across the Revolutionary era is a treasure trove for any early America scholar interested in the forces that made South Carolina in the eighteenth century. The Carolina Backcountry Venture is certainly the most comprehensive account of the district’s early history, for while Camden has previously played an incidental role in dis…
Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban
Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
With this well-curated collection of essays spanning Britain's Atlantic world, the editors and authors provide a panoramic guide to the region's material qualities. Readers are whisked from Bermudan forts to Nova Scotian housing via Indian praying towns, Jamaican stores, British seaports, and the gentleman's suburban house. Citing the volumes edited by Robert Blair St. George, John Styles, and Amanda Vickery, this book sits within an ongoing conv…
Stephen Hague. The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World, 1680–1780
Exploring “modern-built house[s], with four rooms on a floor, fit for a gentleman” (155), Stephen Hague’s The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World, 1680–1780 focuses our attention on the understudied eighteenth-century phenomenon of the small country house. These houses, which numbered in the hundreds, if not thousands, by the end of the period, were raised by merchants and manufacturers who had made money in the burgeoning imperial an…
From Field to Plate: The Colonial Livestock Trade and the Development of an American Economic Culture
Throughout the early modern British Atlantic world, cows were a valuable commodity. Investigating how and where individuals bought and sold cows, hides, and tallow reveals critical differences between the spaces and practices of the British provincial animal trade and its counterpart in early British America. Rather than buying and selling beasts in customary spaces that claimed to uphold the common good, such as fairs and marketplaces, colonists…
Catherine Armstrong. Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745
Catherine Armstrong's second monograph continues her interest in the history of books and printed materials, which she previously explored through textual representations of England's colonizing efforts in the seventeenth century in Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century (2007). Picking up at the Restoration and focusing principally on the Carolinas and Georgia, Armstrong here shifts her focus to the many ways in which the landscape of …
The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution
Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A New Look at Comparative Urbanization in Plantation Colonial British America
Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South Carolina, at its most northerly point. In particular, the authors’ comparison of the internal dynamic of Charleston and Kingston, Jamaica, reveals an urban world that was no more dominated by the dem…
Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom
James H. Tuten sets about his task of examining the closing years of South Carolina rice culture with admirable premise: he is not going to assume the inevitable decline of the sector in the wake of the Civil War. Rather, he is going to explore how planters managed to continue cultivation in such adverse conditions for as long as they did. Tuten's firm rejection of teleology leads him to cast a wide net across the economic, environmental, and cul…
The middling order are odious characters’: Social structure and urban growth in colonial Charleston, South Carolina
In recent years, the idea that Britain and its northern American colonies were part of a single ‘British Atlantic world’ has provided historians of both the Old World and the New with a novel perspective from which to explore their subjects during the long eighteenth century. With a case study of Charleston, South Carolina, this essay extends British categories of analysis across the Atlantic to uncover the origins of an American middle class. Em…
A Lady of the High Hills: Natalie Delage Sumter
A Lady of the Hills: Natalie Delage Sumter. By Thomas Tisdale. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 188. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95.)In no way can Natalie Delage Sumter's life be called representative by the standards of early nineteenth-century America. It certainly was interesting, however. The goddaughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marie Louise Stephanie Beatrix Nathalie de Lage de Volude was born at Versail…
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
Journal Article The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America Get access Emma Hart Emma Hart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 472, June 2002, Pages 721–722, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.472.721 Published: 01 June 2002
Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A New Look at Comparative Urbanization in Plantation Colonial British America
Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South Carolina, at its most northerly point. In particular, the authors’ comparison of the internal dynamic of Charleston and Kingston, Jamaica, reveals an urban world that was no more dominated by the dem…
Digging down into the global urban past
In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early mod…
Atlantic and Local: Scales of Interdependence in Eighteenth Century Charleston, South Carolina
Using Charleston, South Carolina, USA, as a case-study, this article argues that this interplay of scales and, more specifically unequal scales, was just as important to fostering the growth of globally-connected cities in the early modern Atlantic. In the course of the eighteenth century, Charleston grew from a few thousand inhabitants to one of the largest cities in the North Atlantic with a population of roughly 15,000 at the first United Stat…
The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
Journal Article The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America Get access Emma Hart Emma Hart Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 472, June 2002, Pages 721–722, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.472.721 Published: 01 June 2002
A Lady of the High Hills: Natalie Delage Sumter
A Lady of the Hills: Natalie Delage Sumter. By Thomas Tisdale. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Pp. xvii, 188. Illustrations. Cloth, $29.95.)In no way can Natalie Delage Sumter's life be called representative by the standards of early nineteenth-century America. It certainly was interesting, however. The goddaughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, Marie Louise Stephanie Beatrix Nathalie de Lage de Volude was born at Versail…
The middling order are odious characters’: Social structure and urban growth in colonial Charleston, South Carolina
In recent years, the idea that Britain and its northern American colonies were part of a single ‘British Atlantic world’ has provided historians of both the Old World and the New with a novel perspective from which to explore their subjects during the long eighteenth century. With a case study of Charleston, South Carolina, this essay extends British categories of analysis across the Atlantic to uncover the origins of an American middle class. Em…
Lowcountry Time and Tide: The Fall of the South Carolina Rice Kingdom
James H. Tuten sets about his task of examining the closing years of South Carolina rice culture with admirable premise: he is not going to assume the inevitable decline of the sector in the wake of the Civil War. Rather, he is going to explore how planters managed to continue cultivation in such adverse conditions for as long as they did. Tuten's firm rejection of teleology leads him to cast a wide net across the economic, environmental, and cul…
The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution
Kingston, Jamaica, and Charleston, South Carolina: A New Look at Comparative Urbanization in Plantation Colonial British America
Customarily, studies of urbanization in early British America have concentrated on its northern mainland seaports. This article moves beyond a thirteen colonies perspective to define and explore a Greater Caribbean urban world, with Charleston, South Carolina, at its most northerly point. In particular, the authors’ comparison of the internal dynamic of Charleston and Kingston, Jamaica, reveals an urban world that was no more dominated by the dem…
Catherine Armstrong. Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745
Catherine Armstrong's second monograph continues her interest in the history of books and printed materials, which she previously explored through textual representations of England's colonizing efforts in the seventeenth century in Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century (2007). Picking up at the Restoration and focusing principally on the Carolinas and Georgia, Armstrong here shifts her focus to the many ways in which the landscape of …
Stephen Hague. The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World, 1680–1780
Exploring “modern-built house[s], with four rooms on a floor, fit for a gentleman” (155), Stephen Hague’s The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World, 1680–1780 focuses our attention on the understudied eighteenth-century phenomenon of the small country house. These houses, which numbered in the hundreds, if not thousands, by the end of the period, were raised by merchants and manufacturers who had made money in the burgeoning imperial an…
From Field to Plate: The Colonial Livestock Trade and the Development of an American Economic Culture
Throughout the early modern British Atlantic world, cows were a valuable commodity. Investigating how and where individuals bought and sold cows, hides, and tallow reveals critical differences between the spaces and practices of the British provincial animal trade and its counterpart in early British America. Rather than buying and selling beasts in customary spaces that claimed to uphold the common good, such as fairs and marketplaces, colonists…
Historical Approaches to Researching the Global Urban
Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850
With this well-curated collection of essays spanning Britain's Atlantic world, the editors and authors provide a panoramic guide to the region's material qualities. Readers are whisked from Bermudan forts to Nova Scotian housing via Indian praying towns, Jamaican stores, British seaports, and the gentleman's suburban house. Citing the volumes edited by Robert Blair St. George, John Styles, and Amanda Vickery, this book sits within an ongoing conv…
Kenneth E. Lewis. The Carolina Backcountry Venture: Tradition, Capital, and Circumstance in the Development of Camden and the Wateree Valley, 1740–1810
The product of a lifetime’s research in the region, this detailed account of the development of Camden and its environs across the Revolutionary era is a treasure trove for any early America scholar interested in the forces that made South Carolina in the eighteenth century. The Carolina Backcountry Venture is certainly the most comprehensive account of the district’s early history, for while Camden has previously played an incidental role in dis…
Cities, States, and Citizens in the Atlantic World: Towards a New Narrative
In his book Mark Peterson presents an innovative perspective on the development of Boston and its New England hinterland as an early modern city-state. His purpose was to tell the story of Boston in its own right, shedding US national history as the dominant interpretative framework. The four reviewers pick up various strands, focusing, among others, on the validity of the city-state concept, especially as Boston did not become an incorporated ci…
Digging down into the global urban past
In our introduction to this Special Issue on early modern cities and globalization, we explore the current place of cities before 1850 in global urban history and address the promise of a greater focus on their role. We argue that the interplay between the large scale and the small scale in the imperial global city is an essential dialogical force in the formation of each city's relationship to the wider early modern world. Furthermore, early mod…
Pleece, Khan and Jones, Freedom Bound: Escaping Slavery in Scotland
Atlantic and Local: Scales of Interdependence in Eighteenth Century Charleston, South Carolina
Using Charleston, South Carolina, USA, as a case-study, this article argues that this interplay of scales and, more specifically unequal scales, was just as important to fostering the growth of globally-connected cities in the early modern Atlantic. In the course of the eighteenth century, Charleston grew from a few thousand inhabitants to one of the largest cities in the North Atlantic with a population of roughly 15,000 at the first United Stat…
The Urban and the Global in the Early Modern Period in a Comparative Perspective
This dossier argues that the historical phenomena of the urban and the global have interacted in a dialogical fashion: urban dynamics sustained the creation of a modern and globally connected world while the global movement of people, goods, ideas, and practices helped to define urban realities and ideals. The perspective that emphasizes the interconnection between the city and globalization-the global city-is prevalent in urban studies that focu…
The Commercial Worlds of Early America
By the eighteenth century, North America thrived on its global commercial connections. For colonists like Benjamin Fuller, a Philadelphia dealer, and Thomas Nightingale, a South Carolina trader, these connections were the engine of their working lives. Over the middle of the eighteenth century, both men constructed complex business networks as they made their way by buying and selling a huge variety of commodities with an equally eclectic variety…
Capitalism and its American Incarnation: Discussion of Emma Hart, Trading Spaces: the Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism
This forum includes three assessments of Emma Hart’s Trading Spaces: The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism and a response by the author. These analyses consider the book’s tracking of the formation of an American commercial system that, it argues, occurred in conjunction with the creation of the independent United States
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years' War
The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years’ War contains thirty-eight essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years’ War (1756–1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the war—Europe, South Asia, and the Americas—treating each theatre as distinct from each other but often linked in ways that helped create a new geopolitics from the 1760s onward. Chapters trace the caus…
Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War
Early Modern Atlantic Cities
The Atlantic World was an oceanic system circulating goods, people, and ideas that emerged in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. European imperialism was its motor, while its character derived from the interactions between peoples indigenous to Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Much of the everyday workings of this oceanic system took place in urban settings. By sustaining the connections between these disparate regions, cities and t…
Urban America
This chapter focuses on the urban engines of the Revolution, America’s cities. Exploring the whole panorama of urban life provides a proper understanding of the role towns played in setting the Revolution in motion. Towns were anchors of an Atlantic world in which, as dynamic and expanding places, they were a source of novelty, tension, and disorder. The question is, therefore, why and how did this dynamic fuel a revolutionary movement in the thi…
Coast-Wise
This essay asks if historians of early North America have paid enough attention to coastal regions. It suggests that while not exactly neglected, the Atlantic littoral remains an under-theorized space that is often overlooked in favor of inland spaces. Coasts possessed some of the qualities of a borderland, even though colonists did everything they could to fix them in time, in space, and in ownership. Regarding coasts more intentionally as a par…
The Semiquincentennial and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies
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