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Zusatztext We need to look at this world inside-out, and from bottom-to-top. The essays in this Handbook, while successfully reflecting the current state of the field, also provide some illuminating suggestions as to how we might yet do that. Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Canny is Academic Director, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He 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 Harry C. Black Professor, Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009) and Black Experience and the Empire (2004), both also published by Oxford University Press. Klappentext Thirty-seven essays providing a comprehensive overview, covering the most essential aspects 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. Zusammenfassung 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. The team of scholars in this volume seek to describe, explain, and, occasionally, challenge conventional wisdom concerning these path-breaking developments. They demonstrate connections, explore contrasts, and probe themes. During the four centuries encompassed by this collection, pan-Atlantic webs of association emerged that progressively linked people, objects, and beliefs across and within the region. Events in one corner of the Atlantic world had effects, reverberations thousands of miles away. The great virtue of thinking in Atlantic terms is that it encourages broad perspectives, unexpected comparisons, trans-national orientations, and expanded horizons; the parochialism that characterizes so much history writing and instruction today, as in the past, has a chance of being overcome. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan: Introduction Part I: Emergence 2: Joan-Pau Rubiés: . The Worlds of Europeans, Africans, and Americans ca 1490 3: David Northrup: Africans, Early European Contacts, and the Emergent Diaspora 4: Neil Whitehead: Native Americans and Europeans: Early Encounters in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic Coast 5: N. A. M. Rodger: Atlantic Seafaring 6: Matthew Edney: Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic 7: Jean-Frédéric Schaub: Violence in the Atlantic, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 8: David S. Shields: The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts 9: Stuart Schwartz: The Iberian Atlantic to 1650 10: Wim Klooster: The Northern European Atlantic World Section II: Consolidation 11: Ida Altman: The Spanish Atlantic 1650-1780 12: John Russell-Wood: The Portuguese Atlantic World, ca. 1650-ca.1760 13: Joyce Chaplin: The British Atlantic 14: Silvia Marzagalli: The French Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 15: Kevin Terraciano: Transatlantic Strategies: Native Americans in New Spain, Peru, and North America, c. 1550-1750 16: David Eltis: Africa, Slavery, and the Slave Trade, mid-Seventeenth to mid-Eighteenth Centuries Section III: Integration 17: John R. McNeill: The Ecological Atlantic 18: ...
