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.
The Atlantic World provides a comprehensive and lucid history of one of the most important and impactful cross-cultural encounters in human history.
The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government and religion.
With an introduction by Wim Klooster, the four sets of paired essays examine the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history, aspects of European migration, the African dimension, and ways in which the Atlantic world has been imagined.
11 Kulikoff, From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers, 22–23. For a further explanation of rural servitude see Ann Kussmaul, Servants in Husbandry in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
This important new contribution to the study of Atlantic history brings together eight original essays by such leading scholars as Jorge Canizares-Esguerra, Paul Lovejoy, David Eltis, and Benjamin Schmidt on...
The Atlantic World provides a comprehensive and lucid history of one of the most important and impactful cross-cultural encounters in human history.
The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government and religion.
The volume then considers questions such as finance, money and commerce in the Atlantic world, as well as warfare, government and religion.