Daniels, Jason (Researcher in history) (2013) Atlantic contingency : Jonathan Dickinson and the Anglo-Atlantic world, 1655-1725. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This dissertation is about how Jonathan Dickinson (1663-1722), a second-generation
Anglo-Jamaican planter and early-Philadelphian merchant, made sense of the mercurial
and uncertain Atlantic world around the turn of the eighteenth century. The following
chapters examine Dickinson’s interactions with an extremely diverse group of European,
Native American, and African peoples who collectively comprised a formative
generation of colonial society in North America and the West Indies. The main purpose
of this dissertation is to provide a counterpoint to the many tautologous, whiggish, and
nationalistic interpretations of Anglo-Atlantic history that tend to deemphasise the
obvious disconnections, disruptions, discord, and diversity apparent during the lateseventeenth
and early-eighteenth centuries. This dissertation further contends that
individuals, driven by self-preservation and influenced by local circumstances, dictated
the direction and the pace of many inter-colonial, inter-imperial, and trans-Atlantic
developments familiar to the late-eighteenth century Anglo-Atlantic world. In short, new
exigencies outweighed custom, and self-preservation, rather than directives from
metropolitan governments, guided Atlantic peoples’ actions. By extension of individual
actions, the nascent British Atlantic Empire began to take shape.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Subjects:	E History America > E11 America (General) J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Dickinson, Jonathan, 1663-1722, Great Britain -- Colonies -- America, British -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Official Date:	March 2013
Dates:	Date Event March 2013 Submitted
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of History
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Lockley, Timothy James, 1971-
Format of File:	325 leaves.
Language:	eng

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