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The Atlantic World brings together ten essays that explore the connections between the Old and New Worlds in the early modern period. This second edition contains two new chapters on revolutions and abolition, and includes a revised introduction which incorporates recent literature. It is the ideal book for students of Atlantic History.
List of contents
Introduction: The Rise and Transformation of the Atlantic World; Part I: Perspectives; Chapter 1: Life on the Margins: Boston’s Anxieties of Influence in the Atlantic World; Chapter 2: Lisbon as a Strategic Haven in the Atlantic World; Part II: European Migration; Chapter 3: Adventurers Across the Atlantic: English Migration to the New World, 1580–1780; Chapter 4: Searching for Prosperity: German Migration to the British American Colonies, 1680–1780; Part III: The African Dimension; Chapter 5: Identity and Migration: The Atlantic in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 6: Transatlantic Transformations: The Origins and Identity of Africans in the Americas; Part IV: Imagination; Chapter 7: Whose Centers and Peripheries? Eighteenth-Century Intellectual History in Atlantic Perspective; Chapter 8: The Purpose of Pirates, or Assimilating New Worlds in the Renaissance; Part V: Revolution and Abolition; Chapter 9: Un-Silencing the Haitian Revolution and Redefining the Revolutionary Era; Chapter 10: Anthony Benezet, James Ramsay, and the Political Economic Attack on the British Slave Trade; Index
About the author
Wim Klooster is Professor of History at Clark University, USA. His previous books include Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History, new edition (2018), Realm between Empires: The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680–1815 (2018), The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (2016), Illicit Riches: Dutch Trade in the Caribbean, 1648–1795 (1998), and The Dutch in the Americas, 1600–1800 (1997).
Alfred Padula began his professional career as a servitor of the Cold War, first in Naval Intelligence and thereafter in the State Department. His work as a Cuban analyst at the State Department precipitated a lifelong interest in that country. After leaving the State Department he became an instructor in Latin American history at the University of Southern Maine, USA, where he remained for 29 years. Among his publications is a volume on Women in Cuba: Sex and the Revolution (1996), which remains the standard on that subject. He is currently writing a book on Maine and Climate Change.
Summary
The Atlantic World brings together ten essays that explore the connections between the Old and New Worlds in the early modern period. This second edition contains two new chapters on revolutions and abolition, and includes a revised introduction which incorporates recent literature. It is the ideal book for students of Atlantic History.
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'A welcome new edition to a fascinating collection that makes an important contribution to the fields of migration studies at the Atlantic world. This collection will prove useful for students and researchers alike in helping to explain the huge changes that occurred as a result of Atlantic migration enslaved, forced and free.'
Esme Cleall, The University of Sheffield, UK
'This book is an exceptional entrée to the latest scholarship of the interconnected peoples, places, and ideas of early modernity. Comprised of eleven essays written by experts in the field, the book provides a comprehensive history of the Atlantic from exploration to abolition through detailed examinations of cities, migrants, culture, and revolution. Both students new to the field and accomplished scholars will find The Atlantic World captivating and worthy of careful reflection.'
John McCurdy, Eastern Michigan University, USA
