The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World: 1450-1850

by Nicholas Canny (Editor), Philip Morgan (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.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. As a result of these movements, new peoples, economies, societies, polities, and cultures arose in the lands and islands touched by the Atlantic Ocean, while others were destroyed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199210879
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/19/2011
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.90(d)

About the Author

Nicholas Canny has published widely on the history of early modern Ireland, early modern Britain, and the history of European colonization more generally, including Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (2001) and (as editor) volume one in the Oxford History of the British Empire series, Origins of Empire (1998).

Philip Morgan is the author of Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009) and Black Experience and the Empire (2004), both published by Oxford University Press.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Nicholas Canny and Philip MorganPart I: Emergence2. . The Worlds of Europeans, Africans, and Americans ca 1490, Joan-Pau Rubies3. Africans, Early European Contacts, and the Emergent Diaspora, David Northrup4. Native Americans and Europeans: Early Encounters in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic Coast, Neil Whitehead5. Atlantic Seafaring, N. A. M. Rodger6. Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic, Matthew Edney7. Violence in the Atlantic, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Jean-Frederic Schaub8. The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts, David S. Shields9. The Iberian Atlantic to 1650, Stuart Schwartz10. The Northern European Atlantic World, Wim KloosterSection II: Consolidation11. The Spanish Atlantic 1650-1780, Ida Altman12. The Portuguese Atlantic World, ca. 1650-ca.1760, John Russell-Wood13. The British Atlantic, Joyce Chaplin14. The French Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Silvia Marzagalli15. Transatlantic Strategies: Native Americans in New Spain, Peru, and North America, c. 1550-1750, Kevin Terraciano16. Africa, Slavery, and the Slave Trade, mid-Seventeenth to mid-Eighteenth Centuries, David EltisSection III: Integration17. The Ecological Atlantic, John R. McNeill18. Movements of People in the Atlantic World, 1450-1850, William O'Reilly19. Atlantic Trade and Commodities 1402-1815, David Hancock20. People and Places in the Americas: A Comparative Approach, Richard L. Kagan21. Household Formation, Lineage, and Gender Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Carole Shammas22. Polity Formation and Atlantic Political Narratives, Elizabeth Mancke23. Atlantic Law: Transformations of a Regional Legal Regime, Lauren Benton24. Atlantic Warfare, 1440-1763, Ira D. Gruber25. Religion in the Atlantic World, Kenneth Mills26. The Challenge of the New, Anthony Pagden27. . Science, Nature, Race, Susan Scott Parrish28. Identities and Processes of Identification in the Atlantic World, Tamar HerzogSection IV: Disintegration29. Severed Connections: American Indigenous Peoples and the Atlantic World in an Era of Imperial Transformation, Daniel K. Richter and Troy L. Thompson30. The American Revolution in Atlantic Perspective, David Armitage31. The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective, David Geggus32. Popular Movements in Colonial Brazil, Laura de Mello e Souza and Joao Jose Reis33. The Hispanic Revolution, 1808-1826, Jaime E. Rodriguez34. Africa in the Atlantic World, ca. 1760-ca. 1840, Robin Law35. Slavery and Antislavery, 1760-1820, Christopher Leslie Brown36. Atlantic World 1760-1820: Economic Impact, Craig Muldrew37. Atlantic and Wider World, Emma Rothschild

Editorial Reviews

"[A] welcome collection of essays by some of the most forward thinking scholars in Atlantic History...[T]here is something for everyone interested in the history of the Atlantic World. In fact, the broad spectrum of research presented is perhaps the most exciting aspect of the work...[A] truly excellent collection of essays."—Itinerario

"The list of contributors and breadth of coverage are very impressive...[T]he volume is expertly edited and, like others in the series, nicely produced...Highly recommended."—CHOICE

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