The Atlantic World: 1450a 2000

Book Overview

This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world, independence movements in Africa, Caribbean nationalism, and gender and identity in the 20th century are just a few subjects discussed. Moving beyond the micro-histories of the scholarly monograph to connect the fruits of those researches with broader events and processes, this book, in the editors' words, makes "a concerted effort to re-connect elites and non-elites, Old World and New, early modern and modern, and economics and culture." It will be a point of embarkation for a new generation of students of the Atlantic world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253219434
• ISBN13: 9780253219435
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher