The Atlantic World, 1450-2000

by Falola, Toyin; Roberts, Kevin D., Ph.D.

• ISBN13: 9780253349705
• ISBN10: 0253349702
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world, independence movements in Africa, Caribbean nationalism, and gender and identity in the 20th century are just a few subjects discussed. Moving beyond the micro-histories of the scholarly monograph to connect the fruits of those researches with broader events and processes, this book, in the editors' words, makes "a concerted effort to re-connect elites and non-elites, Old World and New, early modern and modern, and economics and culture." It will be a point of embarkation for a new generation of students of the Atlantic world.

Author Biography

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is co-editor of The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World (IUP, 2004).

Kevin D. Roberts is the founder and headmaster of Pope John Paul II Academy in Lafayette, Louisiana. A specialist in comparative slavery, he is author of African American Issues.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Map of the Atlantic World	p. xv
Nations and Migrations	p. 1
The World of the Atlantic before the "Atlantic World": Africa, Europe, and the Americas before 1450	p. 3
Contact and Conquest in Africa and the Americas	p. 27
Migrations and Frontiers	p. 48
Empires and Slavery	p. 67
From Servitude to Slavery	p. 69
The Slave Trade's Apex in the Eighteenth Century	p. 96
The Nineteenth-Century Black Atlantic	p. 114
Women in the Atlantic World	p. 135
The Black Atlantic: Theory, Method, and Practice	p. 151
Independence and Abolition	p. 175
Independence Movements in the New World	p. 177
The Rise of Abolition	p. 211
African Independence Movements	p. 249
Globalization and Its Discontents	p. 275
The Diasporic Dimensions of Caribbean Nationalism, 1900-1959	p. 277
The Cold War in the Atlantic World	p. 294
Gender and Identity in the Twentieth-Century Atlantic World	p. 315
Reparation and Repair: Reform Movements in the Atlantic World	p. 338
Bibliography	p. 359
List of Contributors	p. 373
Index	p. 377
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