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The Atlantic World A History, 1400 - 1888

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    9780882952451

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    0882952455

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-03-20
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

Before the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus's voyage, the Atlantic turned into a conduit for transferring these things among the four continents bordering the ocean in ways that affected people living on each of them. The appearance of "The Atlantic World" marks an important achievement, for it stands out as the first successful attempt to combine the many strains of Atlantic history into a comprehensive, thoughtful narrative. At the core of this ground-breaking and eloquently written survey lies a consideration of the relationships among people living in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with a focus on how these relationships played important roles -- often the most important roles -- in how the histories of the people involved unfolded. The ways of life of millions of people changed, sometimes for the better but often for the worse, because of their relationship to the larger Atlantic world. And unlike existing texts dealing with one or another aspect of Atlantic history, "The Atlantic World" does not subjugate the history of Africa and South America to those of the "British Atlantic" or Europe. With historians and other scholars beginning to reconceptualise the Atlantic World as a dynamic zone of exchange in which people, commodities, and ideas circulated from the mid-fifteenth century until the dawn of the twentieth century, the interconnections between people along the Atlantic rim create a coherent region, one in which events in one corner inevitably altered the course of history in another. As this book testifies, Atlantic history, properly understood, is history without borders -- in which national narratives take backstage to the larger examination of interdependence and cultural transmission. Conceived of and produced by a team of distinguished authors with countless hours of teaching experience at the college level, this thoughtfully organised, beautifully written, and lavishly illustrated book will set the standard for all future surveys intended as a core text for the new and rapidly growing courses in Atlantic History.

Author Biography

Douglas R. Egerton is Professor of History at Le Moyne College. He is the author of the forthcoming Death or Liberty: African Americans and the American Revolution (2007), He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey (1999), Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802(1993), and Charles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism (1989). Alison Games teaches Atlantic history at Georgetown University, where she is the Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History. She is the author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (1999), winner of the Theodore Saloutos Prize in Immigration and Ethnic History. She has written extensively on different aspects of Atlantic history, and her articles have appeared in such journals as Slavery and Abolition, Itinerario, the American Historical Review, and the William and Mary Quarterly. Jane Landers is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author and editor of a number of books on Africans and the circum-Atlantic world, among them the prize-winning Black Society in Spanish Florida. Kris Lane is Associate Professor of History at the College of William Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His books include Pillaging the Empire Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750(1998)and Quito, 1599: City Colony in Transition (2002). His other published works treat the topics of piracy slavery, gold mining, headhunting, and witchcraft in colonial Ecuador and Colombia. He is currently completing a book on the early modern emerald trade. Donald R. Wright is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York-Cortland, where he teaches African, African American, and world history. He is the author of The World and a Very Small Place in Africa. A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia (2nd ed., 2004), and two books in Harlan Davidson's American History Series: African Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution (2nd ed., 2000), and African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831 (1993).

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Methodp. 4
Selected Readingsp. 6
Conceptualizing the Atlantic Worldp. 9
The Atlantic and Its Continental Boundariesp. 13
Atlantic People in 1450p. 17
Europeansp. 19
Africansp. 22
Americansp. 24
Geographic Constraints and Cultural Divergencesp. 30
Selected Readingsp. 37
The Roots of an Atlantic System, 1100-1492p. 41
Europeans and Sugar in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlanticp. 44
Into the Atlanticp. 49
Sub-Saharan States and Empiresp. 54
Portugal's "Guinea of Cape Verde"p. 58
Lower Guinea and the Kongop. 64
The North Atlanticp. 66
An Age of Territorial Expansion: The Empires of the Western Atlanticp. 68
Selected Readingsp. 75
Iberians in America, 1492-1550p. 77
The Spanish in the Caribbeanp. 81
The Portuguese in Brazilp. 88
Spanish Mainland Expeditionsp. 92
Spanish Expansion into South Americap. 101
Establishing Spanish Rulep. 104
Spain's Advancing Frontiersp. 109
Selected Readingsp. 112
European Rivalries and Atlantic Repercussions, 1500-1650p. 115
A Fractured Unityp. 117
Taking Quarrels out of Europep. 129
The Western Atlantic: Entrepreneurs, Pirates, and Trading Postsp. 131
North Atlantic Settlementsp. 138
Undermining Spain: Africa and Commercep. 142
The Rise of the Dutchp. 143
Selected Readingsp. 147
Labor, Migration, and Settlement: Europeans and Indians, 1500-1800p. 149
Indian Labor Systemsp. 150
European Laborers and Migrantsp. 161
Settlementsp. 168
Plantationsp. 173
Family Settlement and Religious Migrationsp. 178
Selected Readingsp. 183
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas, 1580-1780p. 185
Appetites for Sugar-and Laborp. 187
Captives and Trade Goods in Africap. 191
The Middle Passagep. 197
Slavery in the Americasp. 202
Maroon Settlements and Slave Revoltsp. 208
Selected Readingsp. 213
Trade in the Atlantic World, 1580-1780p. 217
Urban and Regional Transformationsp. 218
The Cultures of Consumptionp. 228
Transformations in Africa in the Wake of the Slave Tradep. 240
Selected Readingsp. 251
Racial and Cultural Mixture in the Atlantic World, 1450-1830p. 255
The Atlantic's New Peoplep. 256
Africa's Coastal Cosmopolitansp. 258
Cultural Transformations in the Western Atlanticp. 263
European and African Ethnicities in the Western Atlanticp. 266
Indigenous Responses and Cultural Innovationsp. 271
Free People of Colorp. 278
Selected Readingsp. 288
The Atlantic Shrinks: War, Reform, and Resistance, 1689-1790p. 291
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Warfare and Its Consequencesp. 293
Total Warp. 296
The Regional Impact of Warfarep. 298
War, Peace, and Geographic Ignorancep. 303
An Age of Imperial Reformp. 305
Resistance and Rebellionp. 315
Selected Readingsp. 320
The First Imperial Rupture, 1754-1783p. 323
The Nine Years' Warp. 325
The Reshaping of the Americasp. 331
British Imperial Reform and Anglo-American Political Culturep. 334
The War Widensp. 341
Declaring Independence and Building Republicsp. 343
Loyalists: Red, White, and Blackp. 348
More Atlantic Repercussionsp. 353
Selected Readingsp. 357
Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: The Season of Irony, 1789-1804p. 361
What is That in Your Hand?p. 362
Where Does It Bloom?p. 365
The Tricolor in Black and Whitep. 365
The Reign of Terrorp. 371
Washington's Dilemmap. 372
The Thermidorian Reactionp. 375
The Haitian Détentep. 377
The Revolutions of 1800 and 1804?p. 385
Selected Readingsp. 389
The Ebb and Flow of Empire, 1804-1830p. 391
Independence: Northern South Americap. 395
Independence: The Southern Conep. 399
Independence: New Spainp. 405
Independence: Brazilp. 410
British Triangulation and Neoimperialismp. 414
Atlantic Africap. 416
The Monroe Doctrinep. 419
The Panama Congressp. 422
Selected Readingsp. 425
Industrialism and a New Imperialism, 1780-1850p. 427
Mercantile Capitalism Transformedp. 427
The Market Revolution and the American Southp. 430
Thomas Jefferson: Unwitting Industrial Promoterp. 434
An Army of Redressersp. 439
Migration in an Industrial Agep. 441
Economic Neo-Colonialismp. 447
Atlantic Africa: New Exports, Cheap Imports, Heightened Dependencep. 452
Selected Readingsp. 458
Abolishing Slavery in the Western Atlantic, 1750-1888p. 461
Abolition: The Early Yearsp. 462
Abolition by Lawp. 468
Stopping the Slave Tradep. 473
The End of Slavery in Europe and the Americasp. 476
Abolition and Africap. 482
Labor in the Post-Emancipation Periodp. 485
Reconfiguring the Global Processp. 491
Selected Readingsp. 493
Indexp. 494
Special Topics
Atlantic Distance and Timep. 11
Maps and Our Sense of Thingsp. 12
Transatlantic Voyages before 1492p. 25
Spices of the East?p. 44
Dependent on Wind for Propulsionp. 50
Ecological Imperialismp. 52
Early Iberian Slaveryp. 59
Food, Commerce, Consumption, and Catholicismp. 67
Captivesp. 79
Man's Best Friend? War Dogs and the Spanish Conquest of Americap. 85
Pero Vaz de Caminha's Letter to the King of Portugalp. 88
American Food Crops in Eurasiap. 91
Tenochtitlánp. 95
The Legend of El Doradop. 108
The Day of the Deadp. 124
Enclosurep. 128
Piratesp. 133
The Fur Tradep. l39
Promotional Literaturep. 166
Who was Pocahontas?p. 174
What's In a Name?p. 176
Holy Womenp. 180
The Slave Trade and Numbersp. 186
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Historyp. 190
Warfare and Slave Trading: Chicken or Egg?p. 193
In Exchange for Slavesp. 194
Confusing Slavery with Cottonp. 205
Down the Road to Underdevelopmentp. 221
Atlantic Drugs and Popular Musicp. 228
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