Hemispheric history and atlantic history -- Reformulating Englishness : cultural adaptation and provinciality in the construction of corporate identity in colonial British America -- State formation, resistance, and the creation of revolutionary traditions in the early modern era -- Colonial history and national history : reflections on a continuing problem -- Transatlantic colonization and the redefinition of empire in the early modern era : the British-American experience -- Traditions of consensual governance in the construction of state authority in the early modern European empires in America -- Britain's overseas empire before 1780 : overwhelmingly successful and bureaucratically challenged -- "Of liberty and of the colonies" : a case study of constitutional conflict in the mid-eighteenth-century British American empire -- : the perils of success -- An empire of freemen? : the British debate over the status of overseas representative assemblies, 1763-1783 -- Empire and identity from the Elizabethan era to the American Revolution -- "By their laws shall ye know them" : law and identity in colonial British America -- Liberty, slavery, and the transformation of British identity in the eighteenth-century West Indies -- Alterity and the production of identity in the early modern British American empire and the early United States -- State identities and national identity in the era of the American Revolution -- Social and cultural capital in colonization and state building in the early modern era : colonial British America as a case study -- Pluribus or unum? : white ethnicity in the formation of colonial American culture -- The cultural dimensions of political transfers : an aspect of the European occupation of the Americas -- Early modern southeastern North America and the broader Atlantic and American worlds.