Entangled Atlantic Histories

A Response from the Anglo-American Periphery

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ID7399417
AutoresE H Gould (autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume112
Fascículo5
Páginas1415-1422
Data de publicação2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/ahr.112.5.1415
OpenAlexW2148464194
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas9

Do imperial peripheries matter? If so, to whom do they matter, and in what ways? Is their relationship to other areas of historical analysis unchanging especially to the centers with which they are usually paired or does that relationship vary according to time and place? Although it hardly seems necessary to ask such questions today, the role of the periphery would appear to be anything but settled from the comments of Jorge Canizares-Esguerra in last June's Af/7? Forum, Entangled Empires in the Atlantic World. In his comments, Professor Canizares-Esguerra endorses the general case for entangled history. Linking the histories of the early modern Spanish and British Atlantic worlds, he writes, demonstrates the futility of studying historical phenomena that were transatlantic, hemispheric, and transnational within the limits of national narratives. Yet Professor Canizares-Esguerra also contends that historians would be better served by an alternative version of 'entangled histories,' one that treats interactions at the margins of the two Atlantic communities as limited and that insists on the priority of the core.1 Although I am interested to hear what else he has to say, such a contention strikes me as problematic with respect to Britain and Ireland, and it seems out of place in colonial Anglo-America, where, apart from Britain, there was no such thing as a core

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