{"product_id":"the-atlantic-world-isbn-9780882952451","title":"The Atlantic World","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore the voyage of Columbus in 1492, the Atlantic Ocean stood as a barrier to contact between the people (and their ideas and institutions), plants, animals, and microbes of Eurasia and Africa on the one hand and the Americas on the other. Following Columbus’s voyage, the Atlantic turned into a conduit for transferring these things among the four continents bordering the ocean in ways that affected people living on each of them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe appearance of The Atlantic World marks an important achievement, for it stands out as the first successful attempt to combine the many strains of Atlantic history into a comprehensive, thoughtful narrative. At the core of this ground-breaking and eloquently written survey lies a consideration of the relationships among people living in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with a focus on how these relationships played important roles—often the most important roles—in how the histories of the people involved unfolded. The ways of life of millions of people changed, sometimes for the better but often for the worse, because of their relationship to the larger Atlantic world. And unlike existing texts dealing with one or another aspect of Atlantic history, The Atlantic World does not subjugate the history of Africa and South America to those of the “British Atlantic” or Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith historians and other scholars beginning to reconceptualize the Atlantic World as a dynamic zone of exchange in which people, commodities, and ideas circulated from the mid-fifteenth century until the dawn of the twentieth century, the interconnections between people along the Atlantic rim create a coherent region, one in which events in one corner inevitably altered the course of history in another. As this book testifies, Atlantic history, properly understood, is history without borders—in which national narratives take backstage to the larger examination of interdependence and cultural transmission.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceived of and produced by a team of distinguished authors with countless hours of teaching experience at the college level, this thoughtfully organized, beautifully written, and lavishly illustrated book will set the standard for all future surveys intended as a core text for the new and rapidly growing courses in Atlantic History.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethod 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One. Conceptualizing the Atlantic World 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Atlantic and Its Continental Boundaries 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAtlantic People in 1450 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfricans 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmericans 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGeographic Constraints and Cultural Divergence 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two. The Roots of an Atlantic System, 110-1492 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropeans and Sugar in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInto the Atlantic 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSub-Saharan States and Empires 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePortugal’s “Guinea of Cape Verde” 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLower Guinea and the Kongo 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe North Atlantic 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Age of Territorial Expansion: The Empires of the Western Atlantic 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three. Iberians in America, 1492-1550\u003c\/b\u003e 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Spanish in the Caribbean 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Portuguese in Brazil 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanish Mainland Expeditions 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpanish Expansion into South America 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEstablishing Spanish Rule 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpain’s Advancing Frontiers 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four. European Rivalries and Atlantic Repercussions, 1500-1650 115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Fractured Unity 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking Quarrels out of Europe 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Western Atlantic Entrepreneurs, Pirates, and Trading Posts 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNorth Atlantic Settlements 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUndermining Spain: Africa and Commerce 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Dutch 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Five. Labor, Migration, and Settlement: Europeans and Indians, 1500-1800 149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndian Labor Systems 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean Laborers and Migrants 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSettlements 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlantations 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily Settlement and Religious Migrations 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Six. The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas, 1580-1780 185\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppetites for Sugar—and Labor 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCaptives and Trade Goods in Africa 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Middle Passage 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery in the Americas 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaroon Settlements and Slave Revolts 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Seven. Trade in the Atlantic World, 1580-1780 217\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban and Regional Transformations 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Cultures of Consumption 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransformations in Africa in the Wake of the Slave Trade 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eight. Racial and Cultural Mixture in the Atlantic World, 1450-1830 255\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Atlantic’s New People 256\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica’s Coastal Cosmopolitans 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural Transformations in the Western Atlantic 263\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean and Africa Ethnicities in the Western Atlantic 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndigenous Responses and Cultural Innovations 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFree People of Color 278\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 288\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Nine. The Atlantic Shrinks: War, Reform, and Resistance, 1689-1790 291\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEighteenth-Century Atlantic Warfare and Its Consequences 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTotal War 296\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Regional Impact of Warfare 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWar, Peace, and Geographic Ignorance 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Age of Imperial Reform 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResistance and Rebellion 315\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 320\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Ten. The First Imperial Rupture, 1754-1783 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Nine Years’ War 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reshaping of the Americas 331\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish Imperial Reform and Anglo-American Political Culture 334\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe War Widens 341\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeclaring Independence and Building Republics 343\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLoyalists: Red, White, and Black 348\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMore Atlantic Repercussions 353\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 357\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Eleven. Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: The Season of Irony, 1789-1804 361\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is That in Your Hand? 362\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere Does It Bloom 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tricolor in Black and White 365\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Reign of Terror 371\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWashington’s Dilemma 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thermidorian Reaction 375\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Haitian Détente 377\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Revolutions of 1800 and 1804? 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Twelve. The Ebb and Flow of Empire, 1804-1830 391\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndependence: Northern South America 395\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndependence: The Southern Cone 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndependence: New Spain 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndependence: Brazil 410\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBritish Triangulation and Neoimperialism 414\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAtlantic Africa 416\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Monroe Doctrine 419\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Panama Congress 422\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 425\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Thirteen. Industrialism and a New Imperialism, 1780-1850 427\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMercantile Capitalism Transformed 427\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Market Revolution and the American South 430\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThomas Jefferson: Unwitting Industrial Promoter 434\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Army of Redressers 439\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration in an Industrial Age 441\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Neo-Colonialism 447\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAtlantic Africa: New Exports, Cheap Imports, Heightened Dependence 452\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Fourteen. Abolishing Slavery in the Western Atlantic, 1750-1888 461\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbolition: The Early Years 462\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbolition by Law 468\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStopping the Slave Trade 473\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe End of Slavery in Europe and the Americas 476\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbolition and Africa 482\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor in the Post-Emancipation Period 485\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReconfiguring the Global Process 491\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Readings 493\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 494\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I congratulate the authors of [\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e], who have not simply put together a comprehensive monograph about the Atlantic, but have put specialists from all the regions. They have produced a highly readable book not as a collection of articles, but as a joint written effort we seldom see. ...they may have presaged the way we all have to work in future collaborative schemes.\" (Dennis R. Hidalgo, Adelphi University, for H-Net Reviews, November 4, 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The authors' goal of writing a truly borderless and interconnected history of the Atlantic produces many new and provocative insights. ...Arguably the book's strongest accomplishment is the integration of West Africa into Atlantic history. ...a major contribution to the field of Atlantic history.\" (H-Net Reviews, November 5, 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDOUGLAS R. EGERTON\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Le Moyne College. He is the author of the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eDeath or Liberty:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans and the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eHe Shall Go Out Free: The Lives of Denmark Vesey (1999), Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), and \u003ci\u003eCharles Fenton Mercer and the Trial of National Conservatism\u003c\/i\u003e (1989). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eALISON GAMES\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Atlantic history at Georgetown University, where she is the Dorothy M. Brown Distinguished Professor of History. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMigration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), winner of the Theodore Saloutos Prize in Immigration and Ethnic History. She has written extensively on different aspects of Atlantic history, and her articles have appeared in such journals as \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Abolition, ltinerario\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJANE LANDERS\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and the author and editor of a number of books on Africans and the circum-Atlantic world, among them the prize-winning \u003ci\u003eBlack Society in Spanish Florida\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKRIS LANE\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of History at the College of William \u0026amp; Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His books include \u003ci\u003ePillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eQuito,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e1599: City \u0026amp; Colony in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). His other published works treat the topics of piracy, slavery, gold mining, headhunting, and witchcraft in colonial Ecuador and Colombia. He is currently completing a book on the early modern emerald trade. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDONALD R. WRIGHT\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York-Cortland, where he teaches African, African American, and world history. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia\u003c\/i\u003e (2nd ed., 2004), and two books in Harlan Davidson's American History Series: \u003ci\u003eAfrican Americans in the Colonial Era: From African Origins through the American Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (2nd ed., 2000), and\u003ci\u003e African Americans in the Early Republic, 1789-1831\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE Atlantic World\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990163636453,"sku":"NP9780882952451","price":43.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780882952451.jpg?v=1761786748","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-atlantic-world-isbn-9780882952451","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}