Thirty-seven essays providing a comprehensive overview, covering the most essential aspects of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices-to mention some of the key agents--around and within the Atlantic basin.
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
