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| Introduction | |
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| Method | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Conceptualizing the Atlantic World | |
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| The Atlantic and Its Continental Boundaries | |
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| Atlantic People in 1450 | |
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| Europeans | |
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| Africans | |
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| Americans | |
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| Geographic Constraints and Cultural Divergences | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| The Roots of an Atlantic System, 1100-1492 | |
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| Europeans and Sugar in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic | |
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| Into the Atlantic | |
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| Sub-Saharan States and Empires | |
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| Portugal's "Guinea of Cape Verde" | |
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| Lower Guinea and the Kongo | |
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| The North Atlantic | |
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| An Age of Territorial Expansion: The Empires of the Western Atlantic | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Iberians in America, 1492-1550 | |
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| The Spanish in the Caribbean | |
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| The Portuguese in Brazil | |
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| Spanish Mainland Expeditions | |
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| Spanish Expansion into South America | |
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| Establishing Spanish Rule | |
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| Spain's Advancing Frontiers | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| European Rivalries and Atlantic Repercussions, 1500-1650 | |
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| A Fractured Unity | |
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| Taking Quarrels out of Europe | |
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| The Western Atlantic: Entrepreneurs, Pirates, and Trading Posts | |
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| North Atlantic Settlements | |
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| Undermining Spain: Africa and Commerce | |
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| The Rise of the Dutch | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Labor, Migration, and Settlement: Europeans and Indians, 1500-1800 | |
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| Indian Labor Systems | |
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| European Laborers and Migrants | |
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| Settlements | |
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| Plantations | |
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| Family Settlement and Religious Migrations | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery in the Americas, 1580-1780 | |
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| Appetites for Sugar-and Labor | |
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| Captives and Trade Goods in Africa | |
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| The Middle Passage | |
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| Slavery in the Americas | |
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| Maroon Settlements and Slave Revolts | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Trade in the Atlantic World, 1580-1780 | |
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| Urban and Regional Transformations | |
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| The Cultures of Consumption | |
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| Transformations in Africa in the Wake of the Slave Trade | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Racial and Cultural Mixture in the Atlantic World, 1450-1830 | |
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| The Atlantic's New People | |
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| Africa's Coastal Cosmopolitans | |
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| Cultural Transformations in the Western Atlantic | |
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| European and African Ethnicities in the Western Atlantic | |
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| Indigenous Responses and Cultural Innovations | |
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| Free People of Color | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| The Atlantic Shrinks: War, Reform, and Resistance, 1689-1790 | |
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| Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Warfare and Its Consequences | |
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| Total War | |
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| The Regional Impact of Warfare | |
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| War, Peace, and Geographic Ignorance | |
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| An Age of Imperial Reform | |
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| Resistance and Rebellion | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| The First Imperial Rupture, 1754-1783 | |
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| The Nine Years' War | |
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| The Reshaping of the Americas | |
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| British Imperial Reform and Anglo-American Political Culture | |
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| The War Widens | |
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| Declaring Independence and Building Republics | |
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| Loyalists: Red, White, and Black | |
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| More Atlantic Repercussions | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Revolutions and Counterrevolutions: The Season of Irony, 1789-1804 | |
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| What is That in Your Hand? | |
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| Where Does It Bloom? | |
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| The Tricolor in Black and White | |
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| The Reign of Terror | |
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| Washington's Dilemma | |
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| The Thermidorian Reaction | |
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| The Haitian D�tente | |
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| The Revolutions of 1800 and 1804? | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| The Ebb and Flow of Empire, 1804-1830 | |
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| Independence: Northern South America | |
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| Independence: The Southern Cone | |
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| Independence: New Spain | |
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| Independence: Brazil | |
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| British Triangulation and Neoimperialism | |
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| Atlantic Africa | |
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| The Monroe Doctrine | |
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| The Panama Congress | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Industrialism and a New Imperialism, 1780-1850 | |
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| Mercantile Capitalism Transformed | |
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| The Market Revolution and the American South | |
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| Thomas Jefferson: Unwitting Industrial Promoter | |
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| An Army of Redressers | |
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| Migration in an Industrial Age | |
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| Economic Neo-Colonialism | |
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| Atlantic Africa: New Exports, Cheap Imports, Heightened Dependence | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Abolishing Slavery in the Western Atlantic, 1750-1888 | |
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| Abolition: The Early Years | |
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| Abolition by Law | |
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| Stopping the Slave Trade | |
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| The End of Slavery in Europe and the Americas | |
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| Abolition and Africa | |
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| Labor in the Post-Emancipation Period | |
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| Reconfiguring the Global Process | |
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| Selected Readings | |
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| Index | |
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| Special Topics | |
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| Atlantic Distance and Time | |
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| Maps and Our Sense of Things | |
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| Transatlantic Voyages before 1492 | |
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| Spices of the East? | |
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| Dependent on Wind for Propulsion | |
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| Ecological Imperialism | |
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| Early Iberian Slavery | |
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| Food, Commerce, Consumption, and Catholicism | |
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| Captives | |
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| Man's Best Friend? War Dogs and the Spanish Conquest of America | |
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| Pero Vaz de Caminha's Letter to the King of Portugal | |
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| American Food Crops in Eurasia | |
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| Tenochtitl�n | |
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| The Legend of El Dorado | |
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| The Day of the Dead | |
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| Enclosure | |
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| Pirates | |
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| The Fur Trade | |
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| Promotional Literature | |
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| Who was Pocahontas? | |
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| What's In a Name? | |
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| Holy Women | |
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| The Slave Trade and Numbers | |
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| The Atlantic Slave Trade and History | |
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| Warfare and Slave Trading: Chicken or Egg? | |
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| In Exchange for Slaves | |
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| Confusing Slavery with Cotton | |
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| Down the Road to Underdevelopment | |
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| Atlantic Drugs and Popular Music | |