These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound
the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace
some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of
the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a
comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include
analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade,
pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and
illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical
medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the
Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany,
and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of
that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David
Hume.
In his Introduction Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was
never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but
suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were
distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.
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