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Orange Code:95891
Paperback:727 pages
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1. The Atlantic World: Def nition, Theory, and Boundaries2. Animals in Atlantic North America to 18003. Science and Ideology in the Spanish Atlantic4. Fish and Fisheries in the Atlantic World5. Facing East from the South: Indigenous Americans in the Mostly Iberian Atlantic World6. Southern Africa and the Atlantic World7. Emigration from the Habsburg Monarchy and Salzburg to the New World, 1700–18488. Seafaring communities, 1800–18509. Colour Prejudice in the French Atlantic World10. Atlantic Slaveries: Britons, Barbary, and the Atlantic World11. Morocco and Atlantic History12. The Atlantic and Pacif c Worlds13. An Enslaved Enlightenment: Rethinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic14. Violence in the Atlantic World15. War and Warfare in the Atlantic World16. Political Thinking, Military Power, and Arms Bearing in the British Atlantic World17. Atlantic Peripheries: Diplomacy, War, and Spanish–French Interactions in Hispaniola, 1660s–1690s18. Catholicism19. Protestantism in the Atlantic World20. The Freest Country: Jews of the British Atlantic, ca. 1600–180021. Islam and the Atlantic22. American Identity and English Catholicism in the Atlantic World23. Navigating the Jewish Atlantic: The State of the Field and Opportunities for New Research24. British Joint-Stock Companies and Atlantic Trading25. Speculating on the Atlantic World26. Paper Money, 1450–185027. The Credit Crisis of 1772–73 in the Atlantic World28. Reassessing the Atlantic Contribution to British Marine Insurance29. The Economic World of the Early Dutch and English Atlantic30. The Cultural History of Commerce in the Atlantic World31. ‘To Catch the Public Taste’: Interpreting American Consumers in the Era of Atlantic Free Trade, 1783–185432. ‘Excited Almost to Madness:’ Slave Rebellions and Resistance in the Atlantic World33. Economic Thought and State Practice in the Atlantic World: The ‘Phénomène Savary’ in Context34. The Classical Atlantic World35. The Atlantic Enlightenment
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As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history.
The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters, scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world, such as slaves, European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded, and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places.
Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field, and lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.
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