Academic Minute
My ‘appearance’ on WAMC’s Academic Minute in June 2018 provides a quick introduction to my recent scholarship: https://academicminute.org/2018/06/lou-roper-suny-new-paltz-slavery-and-the-british-empire/
The Fall of New Netherland and Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Imperial Formation, 1654-1676
This article, which appeared in The New England Quarterly 87, no. 4 (December 2014): 666-708, considers the seizure of the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the establishment of New York by the English within a global context. It received…
The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century
This collection of essays, with contributions from an array of international scholars, came out in May 2018. It provides the first comparative treatment of Native, Danish, Dutch, English, and French activities in the seventeenth-century Caribbean. This link provides further information…