A Brief History of the Atlantic

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world.

Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus, the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600, the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s, the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables, the battle of the Falkland, and the Cold War.

Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today, and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change, pollution, and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world.

If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean, this clear and concise history will be a key read as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.

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A Brief History of the Atlantic

The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world.

Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus, the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600, the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s, the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables, the battle of the Falkland, and the Cold War.

Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today, and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change, pollution, and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world.

If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean, this clear and concise history will be a key read as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.

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A Brief History of the Atlantic

A Brief History of the Atlantic

by Jeremy Black
A Brief History of the Atlantic

A Brief History of the Atlantic

by Jeremy Black

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The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In this broad and readable book, Jeremy Black takes the reader through its evolution to becoming one of the most important oceans in the world.

Black discusses the importance of the Atlantic in relation to world history as well as addressing topics such as those bravest to attempt to cross the ocean before Columbus, the beginnings of slavery from 1400-1600, the struggle for control between empires in the 1600s, the way technology adapted with steamships to telegraph cables, the battle of the Falkland, and the Cold War.

Black also touches on the Atlantic we know today, and the struggles it faces due to urgent global issues including climate change, pollution, and the trials of the economic rise in the Indo-Pacific world.

If you have ever yearned to know more about this famed and vital ocean, this clear and concise history will be a key read as one of the first of its kind on its evolution to becoming an established world ocean.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781472145901
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date: 06/02/2022
Series: Brief Histories
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

JEREMY BLACK is one of the country's most respected historians. Andrew Roberts described him as the 'most underrated thinker in Britain'. He is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and Emeritus Professor of History at Exeter University and a renowned expert on the history of war. He appears regularly on TV and radio. His other books include Maps and History, The British Seaborne Empire and Rethinking World War Two.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Physical History 1

Chapter 2 Confronting the Crossing: The Ocean Before Columbus 15

Chapter 3 The Creation of an Iberian Atlantic, 1400-1600 41

Chapter 4 New Atlantics, 1569-1678 67

Chapter 5 Atlantic Struggles, 1679-1774 101

Chapter 6 New 'Players', 1775-1825 135

Chapter 7 Steaming the Ocean, 1826-1913 159

Chapter 8 The First World War and After, 1914-38 197

Chapter 9 The Second World War, 1939-45 211

Chapter 10 The Atlantic in the Cold War, 1945-90 221

Chapter 11 The Atlantic Today, 1991- 237

Chapter 12 Postscript 255

Selected Further Reading 259

Index 263

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