Paul Butel

The Atlantic

Übersetzer: Iain Hamilton

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Butel offers a global history of the Atlantic, surveying the important events of the ocean's rich past and discussing how its power and influence has affected the peoples and nations which have come into contact with it over many centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415756389
• ISBN-10: 0415756383
• Artikelnr.: 39698980

Autorenporträt

Paul Butel

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Atlantic legends and Atlantic reality before the Iberian
discoveries 2 A new Atlantic: from the fifteenth to the beginning of the
sixteenth centuries 3 The Atlantic and the Iberians: sixteenth to
seventeenth centuries 4 The Atlantic and the growth of the naval powers:
the seventeenth century 5 The golden age of the colonial Atlantic: the
eighteenth century 6 Men and powers in the Atlantic: seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries 7 The Atlantic in the nineteenth century: tradition
and change 8 The Atlantic in the twentieth century 9 Conclusion