ABSTRACT

As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key, original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history.

The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration, migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters, scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world, such as slaves, European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded, and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places.

Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field, and lavishly illustrated with paintings, drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.

chapter Chapter One|10 pages

The Atlantic World

Definition, theory, and boundaries

part I|65 pages

Atlantic Explorations

part II|72 pages

The Movement of Peoples

chapter Chapter Five|22 pages

Facing East from the South

Indigenous Americans in the mostly Iberian Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Eight|17 pages

Seafaring Communities, 1800–1850

part III|94 pages

Cultural Encounters

chapter Chapter Ten|15 pages

Atlantic Slaveries

Britons, Barbary, and the Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Eleven|20 pages

Morocco and Atlantic History

chapter Chapter Twelfth|20 pages

The Atlantic and Pacific Worlds

chapter CHAPTER thirteen|15 pages

An Enslaved Enlightenment

Rethinking the intellectual history of the French Atlantic

part IV|77 pages

Warfare and Governance

chapter CHAPTER Fourteen|20 pages

Violence in the Atlantic World

chapter Chapter fifteenth|17 pages

War and Warfare in the Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Seventeen|19 pages

Atlantic Peripheries

Diplomacy, War, and Spanish–French Interactions in Hispaniola, 1660s–1690s

part V|119 pages

Religion

chapter Chapter Eigthteen|27 pages

Catholicism

chapter Chapter Nineteen|17 pages

Protestantism in the Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Twenty|12 pages

The Freest Country

Jews of the British Atlantic World, ca. 1600–1800

chapter Chapter Twenty-One|17 pages

Islam and the Atlantic

chapter Chapter Twenty-Three|25 pages

Navigating the Jewish Atlantic

The state of the field and opportunities for new research

part -VI|72 pages

Credit, Finance, and Money

chapter Chapter Twenty-Five|14 pages

Speculating on the Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Twenty-Six|20 pages

Paper Money, 1450–1850

part VII|87 pages

Commerce, Consumption, and Mercantile Networks

chapter Chapter Thirty-One|24 pages

‘To Catch The Public Taste'

Interpreting American consumers in the era of Atlantic free trade, 1783–1854

part VIII|70 pages

The Circulation of Ideas

chapter Chapter Thirty-Two|20 pages

‘Excited Almost to Madness’ 1

Slave rebellions and resistance in the Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Thirty-Three|15 pages

Economic Thought and State Practice in the Atlantic World

The ‘Phénomène Savary' in context

chapter Chapter Thirty-Four|17 pages

The Classical Atlantic World

chapter Chapter Thirty-Five|17 pages

The Atlantic Enlightenment