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Introduction | p. 1 |
Method | p. 4 |
Selected Readings | p. 6 |
Conceptualizing the Atlantic World | p. 9 |
The Atlantic and Its Continental Boundaries | p. 13 |
Atlantic People in 1450 | p. 17 |
Europeans | p. 19 |
Africans | p. 22 |
Americans | p. 24 |
Geographic Constraints and Cultural Divergences | p. 30 |
Selected Readings | p. 37 |
The Roots of an Atlantic System, 1100-1492 | p. 41 |
Europeans and Sugar in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic | p. 44 |
Into the Atlantic | p. 49 |
Sub-Saharan States and Empires | p. 54 |
Portugal's "Guinea of Cape Verde" | p. 58 |
Lower Guinea and the Kongo | p. 64 |
The North Atlantic | p. 66 |
An Age of Territorial Expansion: The Empires of the Western Atlantic | p. 68 |
Selected Readings | p. 75 |
Iberians in America, 1492-1550 | p. 77 |
The Spanish in the Caribbean | p. 81 |
The Portuguese in Brazil | p. 88 |
Spanish Mainland Expeditions | p. 92 |
Spanish Expansion into South America | p. 101 |
Establishing Spanish Rule | p. 104 |
Spain's Advancing Frontiers | p. 109 |
Selected Readings | p. 112 |
European Rivalries and Atlantic Repercussions, 1500-1650 | p. 115 |
A Fractured Unity | p. 117 |
Taking Quarrels out of Europe | p. 129 |
The Western Atlantic: Entrepreneurs, Pirates, and Trading Posts | p. 131 |
North Atlantic Settlements | p. 138 |
Undermining Spain: Africa and Commerce | p. 142 |
The Rise of the Dutch | p. 143 |
Selected Readings | p. 147 |
Labor, Migration, and Settlement: Europeans and Indians, 1500-1800 | p. 149 |
Indian Labor Systems | p. 150 |
European Laborers and Migrants | p. 161 |
Settlements | p. 168 |
Plantations | p. 173 |
Family Settlement and Religious Migrations | p. 178 |
Selected Readings | p. 183 |
The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas, 1580-1780 | p. 185 |
Appetites for Sugar-and Labor | p. 187 |
Captives and Trade Goods in Africa | p. 191 |
The Middle Passage | p. 197 |
Slavery in the Americas | p. 202 |
Maroon Settlements and Slave Revolts | p. 208 |
Selected Readings | p. 213 |
Trade in the Atlantic World, 1580-1780 | p. 217 |
Urban and Regional Transformations | p. 218 |
The Cultures of Consumption | p. 228 |
Transformations in Africa in the Wake of the Slave Trade | p. 240 |
Selected Readings | p. 251 |
Racial and Cultural Mixture in the Atlantic World, 1450-1830 | p. 255 |
The Atlantic's New People | p. 256 |
Africa's Coastal Cosmopolitans | p. 258 |
Cultural Transformations in the Western Atlantic | p. 263 |
European and African Ethnicities in the Western Atlantic | p. 266 |
Indigenous Responses and Cultural Innovations | p. 271 |
Free People of Color | p. 278 |
Selected Readings | p. 288 |
The Atlantic Shrinks: War, Reform, and Resistance, 1689-1790 | p. 291 |
Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Warfare and Its Consequences | p. 293 |
Total War | p. 296 |
The Regional Impact of Warfare | p. 298 |
War, Peace, and Geographic Ignorance | p. 303 |
An Age of Imperial Reform | p. 305 |
Resistance and Rebellion | p. 315 |
Selected Readings | p. 320 |
The First Imperial Rupture, 1754-1783 | p. 323 |
The Nine Years' War | p. 325 |
The Reshaping of the Americas | p. 331 |
British Imperial Reform and Anglo-American Political Culture | p. 334 |
The War Widens | p. 341 |
Declaring Independence and Building Republics | p. 343 |
Loyalists: Red, White, and Black | p. 348 |
More Atlantic Repercussions | p. 353 |
Selected Readings | p. 357 |
Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: The Season of Irony, 1789-1804 | p. 361 |
What is That in Your Hand? | p. 362 |
Where Does It Bloom? | p. 365 |
The Tricolor in Black and White | p. 365 |
The Reign of Terror | p. 371 |
Washington's Dilemma | p. 372 |
The Thermidorian Reaction | p. 375 |
The Haitian Détente | p. 377 |
The Revolutions of 1800 and 1804? | p. 385 |
Selected Readings | p. 389 |
The Ebb and Flow of Empire, 1804-1830 | p. 391 |
Independence: Northern South America | p. 395 |
Independence: The Southern Cone | p. 399 |
Independence: New Spain | p. 405 |
Independence: Brazil | p. 410 |
British Triangulation and Neoimperialism | p. 414 |
Atlantic Africa | p. 416 |
The Monroe Doctrine | p. 419 |
The Panama Congress | p. 422 |
Selected Readings | p. 425 |
Industrialism and a New Imperialism, 1780-1850 | p. 427 |
Mercantile Capitalism Transformed | p. 427 |
The Market Revolution and the American South | p. 430 |
Thomas Jefferson: Unwitting Industrial Promoter | p. 434 |
An Army of Redressers | p. 439 |
Migration in an Industrial Age | p. 441 |
Economic Neo-Colonialism | p. 447 |
Atlantic Africa: New Exports, Cheap Imports, Heightened Dependence | p. 452 |
Selected Readings | p. 458 |
Abolishing Slavery in the Western Atlantic, 1750-1888 | p. 461 |
Abolition: The Early Years | p. 462 |
Abolition by Law | p. 468 |
Stopping the Slave Trade | p. 473 |
The End of Slavery in Europe and the Americas | p. 476 |
Abolition and Africa | p. 482 |
Labor in the Post-Emancipation Period | p. 485 |
Reconfiguring the Global Process | p. 491 |
Selected Readings | p. 493 |
Index | p. 494 |
Special Topics | |
Atlantic Distance and Time | p. 11 |
Maps and Our Sense of Things | p. 12 |
Transatlantic Voyages before 1492 | p. 25 |
Spices of the East? | p. 44 |
Dependent on Wind for Propulsion | p. 50 |
Ecological Imperialism | p. 52 |
Early Iberian Slavery | p. 59 |
Food, Commerce, Consumption, and Catholicism | p. 67 |
Captives | p. 79 |
Man's Best Friend? War Dogs and the Spanish Conquest of America | p. 85 |
Pero Vaz de Caminha's Letter to the King of Portugal | p. 88 |
American Food Crops in Eurasia | p. 91 |
Tenochtitlán | p. 95 |
The Legend of El Dorado | p. 108 |
The Day of the Dead | p. 124 |
Enclosure | p. 128 |
Pirates | p. 133 |
The Fur Trade | p. l39 |
Promotional Literature | p. 166 |
Who was Pocahontas? | p. 174 |
What's In a Name? | p. 176 |
Holy Women | p. 180 |
The Slave Trade and Numbers | p. 186 |
The Atlantic Slave Trade and History | p. 190 |
Warfare and Slave Trading: Chicken or Egg? | p. 193 |
In Exchange for Slaves | p. 194 |
Confusing Slavery with Cotton | p. 205 |
Down the Road to Underdevelopment | p. 221 |
Atlantic Drugs and Popular Music | p. 228 |
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