Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Atlantic legends and Atlantic reality before the Iberian discoveries; A new Atlantic: from the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; The Atlantic and the Iberians: sixteenth to seventeenth centuries; The Atlantic and the growth of the naval powers: the seventeenth century; The golden age of the colonial Atlantic: the eighteenth century; Men and powers in the Atlantic: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; The Atlantic in the nineteenth century: tradition and change
Summary
Butel offers a global history of the Atlantic, surveying the important events of the ocean's rich past and discussing how its power and influence has affected the peoples and nations which have come into contact with it over many centuries
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-318) and index
