Atlantic American Societies / Edition 1

by Alan Karras, J.R. McNeill

Overview

Within the chronological framework of Implantation, Maturation and Transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery. Suggesting a shift in the traditional units of analysis away from nationally defined boundaries, this volume considers all of the Americas - and Africa - to encourage students to see the larger interimperial issues which governed behaviour in both the new world and the old. It also provides students with a mechanism for viewing interimperial rivalries from the largest possible perspective, by focusing, not only on commercial and demographic history and military and economic interaction between metropolitan regions and their colonies, but on the interdependence of European, African, and Amerindian peoples and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415080736
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/1992
Series:	Rewriting Histories
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Alan Karras, J.R. McNeill

Table of Contents

Editor’s preface 1 THE ATLANTIC WORLD AS A UNIT OF STUDY Part I Implantation, 1492–c.1650 2 ILLS 3 TRAGEDY AND SACRIFICE IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY 4 THE LABOR PROBLEM AT JAMESTOWN Part II Maturity c.1650–c.1770 5 THE COSMIC ORDER IN CRISIS 6 SLAVE RESISTANCE IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA 7 PORTS OF COLONIAL BRAZIL 8 THE FUR TRADE AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMPERIALISM Part III Transitions c.1770–1888 9 THE END OF THE OLD ATLANTIC WORLD: AMERICA, AFRICA, EUROPE, 1770–1888