Atlantic World Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 14001900

Name: Atlantic World Europeans, Africans, Indians and Their Shared History, 14001900
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ISBN: 9780521616492

ISBN-10: 0521616492

ISBN-13: 9780521616492

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thomas Benjamin

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From ca. 1400 to 1900 the Atlantic Ocean served as a major highway, allowing people and goods to move easily between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. These interactions and exchanges transformed European, African, and American societies and led to the creation of new peoples, cultures, economies, and ideas throughout the Atlantic arena. The Atlantic World provides a comprehensive and lucid history of one of the most important and impactful cross-cultural encounters in human history. Empires, economies, and trade in the Atlantic world thrived due to the European drive to expand as well as the creative ways in which the peoples living along the Atlantic's borders adapted to that drive. This…

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List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 752
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.88" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 3.212
Language: English

Thomas E. Benjamin has recently retired as Chair of the Department of Music Theory at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University. A composer, conductor, performer, and music theorist with more than 40 compositions published and recorded, he also holds fellowships and awards from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the National Endowment for the Arts.



List of Tables


List of Illustrations


List of Maps


List of Documents


Preface


Introduction



The Ocean Shall Unloose the Bonds of Things



Antecedents: The Americas, Africa and Europe in the Fifteenth Century



Commencement: The European Opening of the Atlantic Ocean



Conquests: Forging the Iberian Empires in Africa and the Americas



Realms: The Overseas Empires of Spain and Portugal



Europe Supported by Africa and America



Incursions: The French, English and Dutch Invasions of the Iberian Atlantic



Engagement: The Entangled Worlds of Indians and Europeans



Uprooted: West Africa, the Americas and the Atlantic Slave Trade



Bondage: The Atlantic Plantation Complex and the Cultures of Slavery



Partners: Women and Men in the Making of the Atlantic World



A New Order of the Ages



Rivals: Great Britain and France in the Long Eighteenth Century



Liberty: The Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution



Equality: The Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution



Freedom: The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade and New World Slavery


Epilogue


Glossary


Select Bibliography


Index