The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World: 1450-1850

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan: Introduction; Part I: Emergence; 2: Joan-Pau Rubiés: . The Worlds of Europeans, Africans, and Americans ca 1490; 3: David Northrup: Africans, Early European Contacts, and the Emergent Diaspora; 4: Neil Whitehead: Native Americans and Europeans: Early Encounters in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic Coast; 5: N. A. M. Rodger: Atlantic Seafaring; 6: Matthew Edney: Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic; 7: Jean-Frédéric Schaub: Violence in the Atlantic, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; 8: David S. Shields: The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts; 9: Stuart Schwartz: The Iberian Atlantic to 1650; 10: Wim Klooster: The Northern European Atlantic World; Section II: Consolidation; 11: Ida Altman: The Spanish Atlantic 1650-1780; 12: John Russell-Wood: The Portuguese Atlantic World, ca. 1650-ca.1760; 13: Joyce Chaplin: The British Atlantic; 14: Silvia Marzagalli: The French Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; 15: Kevin Terraciano: Transatlantic Strategies: Native Americans in New Spain, Peru, and North America, c. 1550-1750; 16: David Eltis: Africa, Slavery, and the Slave Trade, mid-Seventeenth to mid-Eighteenth Centuries; Section III: Integration; 17: John R. McNeill: The Ecological Atlantic; 18: William O'Reilly: Movements of People in the Atlantic World, 1450-1850; 19: David Hancock: Atlantic Trade and Commodities 1402-1815; 20: Richard L. Kagan: People and Places in the Americas: A Comparative Approach; 21: Carole Shammas: Household Formation, Lineage, and Gender Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World; 22: Elizabeth Mancke: Polity Formation and Atlantic Political Narratives; 23: Lauren Benton: Atlantic Law: Transformations of a Regional Legal Regime; 24: Ira D. Gruber: Atlantic Warfare, 1440-1763; 25: Kenneth Mills: Religion in the Atlantic World; 26: Anthony Pagden: The Challenge of the New; 27: Susan Scott Parrish: . Science, Nature, Race; 28: Tamar Herzog: Identities and Processes of Identification in the Atlantic World; Section IV: Disintegration; 29: Daniel K. Richter and Troy L. Thompson: Severed Connections: American Indigenous Peoples and the Atlantic World in an Era of Imperial Transformation; 30: David Armitage: The American Revolution in Atlantic Perspective; 31: David Geggus: The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective; 32: Laura de Mello e Souza and João José Reis: Popular Movements in Colonial Brazil; 33: Jaime E. Rodríguez: The Hispanic Revolution, 1808-1826; 34: Robin Law: Africa in the Atlantic World, ca. 1760-ca. 1840; 35: Christopher Leslie Brown: Slavery and Antislavery, 1760-1820; 36: Craig Muldrew: Atlantic World 1760-1820: Economic Impact; 37: Emma Rothschild: Atlantic and Wider World

Portrait

Nicholas Canny is Academic Director, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published widely on the history of early modern Ireland, early modern Britain, and the history of European colonization more generally, including Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (2001) and (as editor) volume one in the Oxford History of the British Empire series, Origins of Empire (1998).

Pressestimmen

We need to look at this world inside-out, and from bottom-to-top. The essays in this Handbook, while successfully reflecting the current state of the field, also provide some illuminating suggestions as to how we might yet do that. Michael A. McDonnell, English Historical Review