Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830

These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan—Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter—ethnic collaboration in the developme...