Abstract
Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden, eds. Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. xi + 290 pp. Colonial identity is, apparently, an inherently good thing. The search for it is not so much a field as an academic agribusiness. Perhaps Woodrow Wilson's greatest gift to his profession was to popularize the rights of "peoples" rather than humans. Struggles for independence have come to be viewed as righteous if conducted by self-proclaimed peoples.
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