CALL FOR NEWS sions will be held Sunday morn- Michael Adas and Phyllis Mach ing. Those wishing more detailed have announced an important ITEMS conference information should conference to be held at Rutgers contact William Phillips in October 25-27, 1996, entitled, Robert L. Hoover, Editor (612)624-6631 or Carla Phillips "Religious Transformations: fax (805)544-2528 (612)626-1796. For those wishing Colonial and Post-Colonial to submit papers, the Program Encounters." The Conference will THE NEXT SUBMISSION Committee consists of James be sponsored by the Rutgers DEADLINE FOR THE Axtell (William and Mary), Pierre Center for Historical Analysis, NEWSLETTER IS MARCH 10, Boulle (McGill), and David FEEGI, and by Dr. Leonard 1996. Hancock (Harvard). Blusse, Director of the Institute III International Congress on for the History of European Restoration of Architectural Expansion, University of Leiden. UPCOMING CON- Heritage and Buildings, May 2025, Speakers will address issues of 1996, Granada, Spain. This biannual religious thought and experience FERENCES congress is held alternately in during the period of European Europe and America, and its third expansion and in the post-colonial The Society for Historical reunion will be in one of the most world. Topics will include Archaeology Meetings will be held important historical cities in the changing concepts of religious at the Omni Netherlands Plaza, world. The rich heritage of the city purity, idolatry, and blasphemy, Cincinnati, OH, on January 2-7, will be the ideal setting for the witchcraft and magic, religious 1996. As usual, the majority of exposition of participants' research syncretism, millenarian and fun- papers will deal with Spanish, and experience. Contact Viajes damentalist movements, and British, and French colonial North Sacramonte, Departmento de religious pluralism. For further America. Contact Marcy Gray at Congresos, c/Ganivet, No. 6, 18009 details for those submitting (513)6656707 for further details. Granada, Spain, Tel. (958)225599, papers, contact Michael Adas at The next regular FEEGI Fax (958)224617. (908)932-6747, 7908. Congress will be held in The John Carter Brown Library Minneapolis on April 19-21, 1996, will sponsor a conference on June with Professors William and 16-19, 1996, entitled "The Jews and Carla Phillips as hosts. Fifty the Expansion of Europe to the PRESIDENT'S rooms have been reserved at the West, 1450 to the Revolutions for Holiday Inn Metrodome at Independence in the Americas." The special rates. Details remain to be MESSAGE conference will cross the usual worked out, but meetings on boundaries between European and Friday morning and afternoon I wish to call attention to Carla American history, and the history of Rahn Phillips' recent chairmanship are anticipated, with lunch at the observant and converted Jews. It hotel. A reception/buffet dinner is of our highly successful panel under will illuminate a number of subjects the aegis of the Spanish and planned at the Phillips' home on in the early modern period beyond Friday evening. Mornings Portuguese Historians at the the history of the Jewish experience Chicago A.H.A. meeting last sessions Saturday will be followed in particular. For a copy of the by lunch and afternoon on one's January. Before a considerable program and other information, audience, Michael Adas, David own. A reception at the James write to Norman Fiering at the JCB, Ford Bell Library will be followed Buisseret, Karen Kupperman, Box 1894, Providence, Rhode Patricia Seed, and Stuart Schwartz Saturday evening by a banquet at Island 02912, (401)8632725. the hotel or on campus. More ses- provided able summaries of the state of expansion studies in their fields, a presentation designed to Fall 1995 Volume 1, Issue 2 introduce the FEEGI, create new An Expanding World ticular to a collection of essays interest in our field, and solicit published this year in honor of John membership. From my isolation in nother publication series related to Elliott by students and disciples. Portugal, I was intensely eager to our subject is of an entirely different Spain, Europe and the Atlantic hear about it, and happy to receive nature. The series "An Expanding World was edited by Richard L. such favorable reports from World: The European Impact on Kagan of Johns Hopkins and colleagues who had attended. We World History, 1450-1800" is edited Geoffrey Parker of Yale, and have made a good beginning, and I by Prof. A.J.R. Russell-Wood of published by Cambridge University not only thank her for her able John Hopkins University and will Press. The work includes 14 essays. organization, but those friends all, consist ultimately of 30 volumes or who were on the panel. It is highly more made up of collections of encouraging that our first meeting previously printed essays on par- was in such able hands. ticular topics. The topics around History of the which each volume is built are such as, for example, "The Atlantic Atlantic World George Winius Staple Trade," or "The Plantation (803)588-3472 Complex," or "Cities of Empire." Professor Bernard Bailyn at Each volume-has an editor who Harvard, who was among the group selects the essays for inclusion. All of thirty scholars who gathered in the volumes together will constitute April 1994 to found FEEGI, will be PUBLICATIONS & an unmatched assemblage of leading a series of Seminars at scholarship on the history of Harvard on "The History of the OPPORTUNITIES European expansion. Atlantic World, 1500-1800." Each Among the editors of the indi- Seminar will meet for a week, and vidual volumes are a number of there will be four in total over a The Hakluyt Society scholars who were present at the four-year period, each with a founding meeting of FEEGI in April different theme. The first will be in 0ne of the special strengths of the 1994, including Prof. Russell-Wood September 1996 on the theme of Forum on European Expansion is himself, Michael Adas, Pieter "The Movement of People: Mobility that it interlocks with or, better, Emmer, Murdo MacLeod, Susan and Migration, Recruitment and encompasses many related subjects Socolow, and George Winius. "An Resettlement." For a full description and the organizations that represent Expanding World" is published by of this program, write to Patricia those subjects. Those interested in Variorum, Ashgate Publishing, Old Denault, Administrator, our subject may also be interested, Post Road, Brookfield, Vermont International Seminar, Robinson for example, in the Hakluyt Society 05036. For information, write to the Hall, Harvard University, in London, now approaching its publisher or to Prof. Russell-Wood. Cambridge, MA 02138; or by E- 150th year of operations. "Haksoc" With the 150-year-old Hakluyt mail: [email protected]. is essentially a reprint publishing series and the brand new Variorum venture specializing exclusively in series, teachers of European Colegios is the International the history of travel and exploration. expansion will have excellent, Newsletter on the History of Ideas Since 1846, the year of its founding, convenient material to work with. in Colonial Latin America. the Society has published some 324 Published biannually by Our Lady books of primary sources covering of the Lake University of San the entire history of travel. All of Antonio and is sent to scholars the volumes are translated into throughout the world. Submissions English and the editing is uniformly Essays in Honour of may be sent in Portuguese, English, good. and Spanish to Colegios, c/o Jeffrey The Hakluyt Society has over John H. Elliott Coombs, Editor, OLLU, 411 S.W. 2,000 members or subscribers in 24th Street, San Antonio, TX sixty countries. Dues are $50 a year, The work of Sir John H. 782074689. Subscribe by FAX to for which one receives regular Elliott, Regius Professor of (210)436-0824. The newsletter is publications worth about twice that Modern History at Oxford packed with news of conferences amount. To join the Society, write University, is basic to the history and new publications. to: Hakluyt Society, c/o The Map of European expansion, and he Library, the British Library, Great continues actively to produce in Florida Indians and the Invasion Russell Street, London WCIB 3DG. this general area of thought. from Europe by Jerald T. Milanich Dozens of books are published has just been published by the every year that relate to our field, but we call attention here in par- Volume I, Issue 2 University Presses of Florida; 15 economics. The book may be merce from the 15th century NW 15th Street, Gainesville, ordered for $24.95 from Pineapple onwards. For further information Florida 32611-2079; (904)3921351. Press, Inc., Drawer 16008, and a list of publications, contact When the conquistadors arrived in Southside Station, Sarasota, FL Centro de Estudos de Hist6ria de Florida in the early sixteenth 34329,(813)952-1085. Atlantico, Rua dos Ferreiros century, as many as 350,000 native 165,9000 Funchal, Madeira, Tel Americans lived in the territory. For The Forschungsstiftung fur ver- (091) 2 96 35, Fax (091) 3 21 51. more than twelve centuries their gleichende europaische ancestors had resided here, fishing, uberseegeschichte serves the same The Portuguese Historical Center hunting, gathering wild plants, and goals for German-speaking Europe of San Diego sponsors annual sometimes cultivating crops. Two as does FEEGI in North America. symposia each October, featuring and a half centuries later, Florida's Founded in 1989 and holding eminent scholars on historical and Indians were gone. Focusing on annual meetings since 1990, the maritime affairs from Portugal and those native peoples and their topic this November is the United States. The symposia are interactions with Spanish and "Controversies in the Interpretation held at Cabrillo (Cabrilho?) French explorers and colonists, of the History of European National Monument. The Center Jerald Milanich delineates this Expansion.