British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 - Armitage, David
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‘The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800’ gathers an international team of historians to present the first comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective: the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics and slavery. Together, the essays will be a primary resource for students and teachers and a stimulus to researchers in British, American, imperial and Atlantic history more generally.
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Produktbeschreibung
‘The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800’ gathers an international team of historians to present the first comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain, British America and the British Caribbean seen in Atlantic perspective: the state, empire, migration, the economy, religion, race, class, gender, politics and slavery. Together, the essays will be a primary resource for students and teachers and a stimulus to researchers in British, American, imperial and Atlantic history more generally.

Table of contents:
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Preface; ‘B.Bailyn’
Introduction; ‘D.Armitage & M.J.Braddick’

PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS
Three Concepts of Atlantic History; ‘D. Armitage’

PART TWO: CONNECTIONS
Migration; ‘A.Games’
Economy; ‘N.Zahedieh’
Religion; ‘C.G.Pestana’

PART THREE: IDENTITIES
Civility and Authority; ‘M.J.Braddick’
Gender; ‘S.M.S.Pearsall’
Class; ‘K.Wrightson’
Race; ‘J.E.Chaplin’

PART FOUR: POLITICS
State and Empire; ‘E.Mancke’
Revolution and Counter-Revolution; ‘E.H.Gould’
The Politics of Slavery; ‘C.L.Brown’
Afterword: Atlantic History: A Circumnavigation; ‘J.H.Elliott’
Abbreviations
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Autorenporträt
DAVID ARMITAGE is Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of ‘The Ideological Origins of the British Empire’ (2000), and has edited a number of volumes including ‘Theories of Empire, 1450-1800’ (1998).

MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. His publications include’ State Formation in Early Modern England, c. 1550-1700’ (2000), and the co-edited volume ‘Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland’ (2001).