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Title The Oxford handbook of the Atlantic world, c.1450-c.1850 / edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 671 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series [Oxford handbooks]
Oxford handbooks.
Contents The worlds of Europeans, Africans, and Americans, c.1490 / Joan-Pau Rubiés -- Africans, early European contacts, and the emergent diaspora / David Northrup -- Native Americans and Europeans : early encounters in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic coast / Neil L. Whitehead -- Atlantic seafaring / N.A.M. Rodger -- Knowledge and cartography in the early Atlantic / Matthew H. Edney -- Violence in the Atlantic : sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Jean Frédéric Schaub -- The Atlantic world, the senses, and the arts / David S. Shields -- The Iberian Atlantic to 1650 / Stuart B. Schwartz -- The Northern European Atlantic world / Wim Klooster -- The Spanish Atlantic, 1650-1780 / Ida Altman -- The Portuguese Atlantic world, c.650-c.760 / A.J.R. Russell-Wood -- The British Atlantic / Joyce E. Chaplin -- The French Atlantic world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Silvia Marzagalli -- Voices from the other side : native perspectives from New Spain, Peru, and North America / Kevin Terraciano -- Africa, slavery, and the slave trade, mid-seventeenth to mid-eighteenth centuries / David Eltis -- The ecological Atlantic / J.R. McNeill -- Movements of people in the Atlantic world, 1450-1850 / William O'Reilly -- Atlantic trade and commodities, 1402-1815 / David Hancock -- People and places in the Americas : a comparative approach / Richard L. Kagan -- Household formation, lineage, and gender relations in the early modern Atlantic world / Carole Shammas -- Polity formation and Atlantic political narratives / Elizabeth Mancke -- Atlantic law : transformations of a regional legal regime / Lauren Benton -- Atlantic warfare, 1440-1763 / Ira D. Gruber -- Religion in the Atlantic world / Kenneth Mills -- The challenge of the new / Anthony Pagden -- Science, nature, race / Susan Scott Parrish -- Identities and processes of identification in the Atlantic world / Tamar Herzog -- Severed connections : American Indigenous peoples and the Atlantic world in an era of imperial transformation / Daniel K. Richter and Troy L. Thompson -- The American revolution in Atlantic perspective / David Armitage -- The Haitian revolution in Atlantic perspective / David Geggus -- Popular movements in colonial Brazil / Laura De Mello E Souza and Joāo José Reis -- Revolution in the Hispanic world, 1808-1816 / Jaime E. Rodríguez O. -- Africa in the Atlantic world, c.1760-c.1840 / Robin Law -- Slavery and antislavery, 1760-1820 / Christopher Leslie Brown -- Atlantic world, 1760-1820 : economic impact / Craig Muldrew -- Late Atlantic history / Emma Rothschild
Summary Thirty-seven essays providing a comprehensive overview, covering the most essential aspects of Atlantic history from 1450 to 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject History, Modern.
Civilization, Modern.
Civilization, Modern
History, Modern
History & Archaeology.
History - General.
SUBJECT Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
Subject Atlantic Ocean Region
Atlantisch gebied.
Genre/Form History
Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Canny, Nicholas, 1944- editor
Morgan, Philip D., 1949- editor.
ISBN 9780191743467
0191743461
Other Titles Atlantic world, c.1450-c.1850