The Atlantic Experience
Peoples, Places, Ideas
Published on 4. December 2013
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-230-27273-6 (ISBN)
Description
A succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety. The book explores discrete themes such as conquest, trade and race in an holistic Atlantic context, and provides a thorough overview of key and cutting edge scholarship in the field for an undergraduate audience.
Reviews / Votes
'The Atlantic Experience has the potential to become the leading text in the field for both teachers and students of the Atlantic world and Atlantic history.' - David Ceri Jones, Lecturer in History, Aberystwyth University, UKMore details
Edition
2013
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-27273-6 (9780230272736)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-40434-3
Schweitzer Classification
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Persons
Catherine Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies 1660-1745.
Laura M. Chmielewski is Associate Professor of History at Purchase College, State University of New York, USA. She is the author of The Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier.
Laura M. Chmielewski is Associate Professor of History at Purchase College, State University of New York, USA. She is the author of The Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier.
Content
Introduction - Studying Atlantic History.- 1. Navigation and Empire.- 2. Contact and Encounter.- 3. Bondage and Freedom.- 4. Trade and Economy.- 5. Atlantic Religion: Beliefs and Behaviours.- 6. Cultural Transfer in the Greater Atlantic.- 7. Dependence and Independence.- 8. The Quest for Abolition.- Conclusion.