The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of
Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and
authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens,
products, and cultural practices-to mention some of the key
agents--around and within the Atlantic basin. As a result of these
movements, new peoples, economies, societies, polities, and
cultures arose in the lands and islands touched by the Atlantic
Ocean, while others were destroyed.
The team of scholars in this volume seek to describe, explain, and,
occasionally, challenge conventional wisdom concerning these
path-breaking developments. They demonstrate connections, explore
contrasts, and probe themes. During the four centuries encompassed
by this collection, pan-Atlantic webs of association emerged that
progressively linked people, objects, and beliefs across and within
the region. Events in one corner of the Atlantic world had effects,
reverberations thousands of miles away. The great virtue of
thinking in Atlantic terms is that it encourages broad
perspectives, unexpected comparisons, trans-national orientations,
and expanded horizons; the parochialism that characterizes so much
history writing and instruction today, as in the past, has a chance
of being overcome.
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