The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World

1450-1850
Ed. by Canny, Nicholas; Morgan, Philip

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Thirty-seven essays providing a comprehensive overview, covering the most essential aspects 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.

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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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Produktdetails

• Oxford Handbooks in History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 704
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 182mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 1360g
• ISBN-13: 9780199210879
• ISBN-10: 019921087X
• Artikelnr.: 32308204

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Canny is Academic Director, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published widely on the history of early modern Ireland, early modern Britain, and the history of European colonization more generally, including Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (2001) and (as editor) volume one in the Oxford History of the British Empire series, Origins of Empire (1998). Philip Morgan is Harry C. Black Professor, Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009) and Black Experience and the Empire (2004), both also published by Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan: Introduction
* Part I: Emergence
* 2: Joan-Pau Rubiés: . The Worlds of Europeans, Africans, and
Americans ca 1490
* 3: David Northrup: Africans, Early European Contacts, and the
Emergent Diaspora
* 4: Neil Whitehead: Native Americans and Europeans: Early Encounters
in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic Coast
* 5: N. A. M. Rodger: Atlantic Seafaring
* 6: Matthew Edney: Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic
* 7: Jean-Frédéric Schaub: Violence in the Atlantic, Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
* 8: David S. Shields: The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts
* 9: Stuart Schwartz: The Iberian Atlantic to 1650
* 10: Wim Klooster: The Northern European Atlantic World
* Section II: Consolidation
* 11: Ida Altman: The Spanish Atlantic 1650-1780
* 12: John Russell-Wood: The Portuguese Atlantic World, ca.
1650-ca.1760
* 13: Joyce Chaplin: The British Atlantic
* 14: Silvia Marzagalli: The French Atlantic World in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries
* 15: Kevin Terraciano: Transatlantic Strategies: Native Americans in
New Spain, Peru, and North America, c. 1550-1750
* 16: David Eltis: Africa, Slavery, and the Slave Trade,
mid-Seventeenth to mid-Eighteenth Centuries
* Section III: Integration
* 17: John R. McNeill: The Ecological Atlantic
* 18: William O'Reilly: Movements of People in the Atlantic World,
1450-1850
* 19: David Hancock: Atlantic Trade and Commodities 1402-1815
* 20: Richard L. Kagan: People and Places in the Americas: A
Comparative Approach
* 21: Carole Shammas: Household Formation, Lineage, and Gender
Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World
* 22: Elizabeth Mancke: Polity Formation and Atlantic Political
Narratives
* 23: Lauren Benton: Atlantic Law: Transformations of a Regional Legal
Regime
* 24: Ira D. Gruber: Atlantic Warfare, 1440-1763
* 25: Kenneth Mills: Religion in the Atlantic World
* 26: Anthony Pagden: The Challenge of the New
* 27: Susan Scott Parrish: . Science, Nature, Race
* 28: Tamar Herzog: Identities and Processes of Identification in the
Atlantic World
* Section IV: Disintegration
* 29: Daniel K. Richter and Troy L. Thompson: Severed Connections:
American Indigenous Peoples and the Atlantic World in an Era of
Imperial Transformation
* 30: David Armitage: The American Revolution in Atlantic Perspective
* 31: David Geggus: The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective
* 32: Laura de Mello e Souza and João José Reis: Popular Movements in
Colonial Brazil
* 33: Jaime E. Rodríguez: The Hispanic Revolution, 1808-1826
* 34: Robin Law: Africa in the Atlantic World, ca. 1760-ca. 1840
* 35: Christopher Leslie Brown: Slavery and Antislavery, 1760-1820
* 36: Craig Muldrew: Atlantic World 1760-1820: Economic Impact
* 37: Emma Rothschild: Atlantic and Wider World

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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung | Besprechung von 01.07.2011

Ozeanverbindung

Die international seit geraumer Zeit boomende "Atlantische Geschichte" stellt den Versuch dar, die Geschichte eines Sets von Gesellschaften zu analysieren, denen gemeinsam war, dass sie sich ohne ihre Einbindung in das sich im fünfzehnten Jahrhundert etablierende transatlantische Netzwerk fundamental anders entwickelt hätten. Seit dieser Zeit überqueren Menschen, Pflanzen, Pathogene, Waren und kulturelle Praktiken regelmäßig den Atlantischen Ozean. Mit der Intensivierung dieser Verbindungen gingen grundlegende Transformationen einher. Neue Gesellschaften, politische Ordnungen, Ökonomien und Kulturen entstanden, andere wurden zerstört. Die Beiträge des Handbuchs der Atlantischen Welt verdeutlichen, wie die Perspektive der Atlantischen Geschichte es binnen einer Historikergeneration möglich gemacht hat, Verknüpfungen ebenso wie Diskontinuitäten deutlicher zu sehen, die zuvor im Rahmen der üblichen National- oder Imperialgeschichte verdeckt geblieben waren. Mehrere Artikel unterstreichen nachdrücklich, dass die Mehrzahl der Menschen, die mit ihren Ideen und Lebensweisen über den Atlantik reisten, bis in das neunzehnte Jahrhundert hinein "unfreiwillige Migranten" waren - Sklaven, die aus Afrika in die Amerikas zwangsverschleppt wurden. Sie waren, schreibt Emma Rothschild im Abschlusskapitel, "die neuesten Amerikaner, mit der kürzesten Lebensdauer; sie hatten jedoch das größte Wissen über und die rezentesten Erinnerungen an Gesellschaften beiderseits des Atlantiks und an den Übergang von der Alten in die Neue Welt". ("The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World 1450-1850". Hrsg. von Nicholas Canny und Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2011. 671 S., geb., Abb., 109,20 [Euro].)

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