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This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share their experiences, and spread knowledge. Extending the conventional chronology of Atlantic world history up to the start of the First World War, Niels Eichhorn uncovers the complex dynamics of transition and transformation that marked the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Migration.- 3. Trade Relations.- 4. National Revolutions.- 5. Constitutional Revolutions.- 6. Garibaldi's Revolutionary Atlantic.- 7. Slave Trade and the Return to Africa.- 8. Emancipation.- 9. Conquest of Frontiers.- 10. Imperial Projects and Expansion.- 11. Henry Sylvester Williams's Black Atlantic.- 12. Conservative Revolutions.- 13. Atlantic Tourism.- 14. Atlantic Financial Entanglements.- 15. Industrial Reform, Progressivism, and Socialism.- 16. A New Atlantic World.
About the author
Niels Eichhorn teaches at Middle Georgia State University, USA. He has published a number of articles on transnational and diplomatic interactions during the American Civil War and is the author of Liberty and Slavery: European Separatists, Southern Secession, and the American Civil War (2019).
Summary
This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share their experiences, and spread knowledge. Extending the conventional chronology of Atlantic world history up to the start of the First World War, Niels Eichhorn uncovers the complex dynamics of transition and transformation that marked the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.
