Atlantic in World History

by Karen Ordahl Kupperman

Book Overview

As Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere. American foods enriched their diets. Furs, precious metals, dyes, and many other products underwrote new luxury trades, and tobacco became the first consumer craze as the price plummeted with ever-enlarging production.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019533809X
• ISBN13: 9780195338096
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.1"