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The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History, 1st Edition

  • Editor: Joseph C. Miller
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  • ISBN-10: 1400852218
  • ISBN-13: 9781400852215
  • DDC: 909.09821
  • Grade Level Range: College Freshman - College Senior
  • 562 Pages | eBook
  • Original Copyright 2014 | Published/Released January 2016
  • This publication's content originally published in print form: 2014

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Overview

This book, the first encyclopedic reference work on Atlantic history, takes an integrated, multicontinental approach that emphasizes the dynamics of change and the perspectives and motivations of the peoples who made it happen. The entries—all specially commissioned for this volume from an international team of leading scholars—synthesize the latest scholarship on central themes, including economics, migration, politics, war, technologies and science, the physical environment, and culture.

Contributors

Contributors

  • Joseph C. Miller

Table of Contents

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright.
Contents.
Preface.
Alphabetical List of Entries.
Topical List of Entries.
Contributors.
Maps.
1: Prologue: Historical Dynamics of Change.
2: The Sixteenth Century: Specie, Sugar, and Slaves.
3: The Seventeenth Century: Expansion and Consolidation.
4: The Eighteenth Century: Growth, Crisis, and Revolution.
5: The Nineteenth Century: Consolidation and Reconfiguration.
A.
6: Abolition of Atlantic Slave Trade.
7: Agricultural Production.
B.
8: Blended Communities.
9: Brokers.
C.
10: Capitalism.
11: Captivity, Native American.
12: Cartography.
13: Center-Periphery Analysis.
14: Christianity.
15: Christianity, Adaptations in Africa of.
16: Christianity, African American.
17: Christianity, Native American Appropriations of.
18: Class.
19: Climate and Weather.
20: Colonies and Colonization.
21: Columbian Exchange.
22: Commercialization.
23: Commodities.
24: Contraband.
25: Cornucopias.
26: Creolization.
D.
27: Death and Burial.
28: Democratic Revolutions, Age of.
29: Diasporas.
30: Diseases.
E.
31: Economic Cycles.
32: Economic Strategies, African.
33: Economic Strategies, European.
34: Economic Strategies, Native North American.
35: Economies, African.
36: Economies, American: Brazil.
37: Economies, American: Caribbean.
38: Economies, American: North America.
39: Economies, American: Spanish Territories.
40: Economies, European.
41: Emancipations.
42: Emigrants.
43: Empires.
44: Environments.
45: Ethnicity.
F.
46: Family and Family Networks.
47: Family Production and Commercial Labor.
48: Foods and Diets.
49: Forest Resources.
50: Freed People.
51: Frontiers.
52: Furs and Skins.
G.
53: Gender.
54: Geography.
55: Government, Representative.
H.
56: Healing, African.
57: Healing, African American.
58: Healing, European.
59: Healing, Native American.
I.
60: Imperial Planning.
61: Impressment, Kidnapping, and Panyarring.
62: Indentured Contracts.
63: Independence: Haiti.
64: Independence: Hispanic Americas.
65: Independence: United States.
66: Islam in Africa.
J.
67: Jewish Communities.
68: Judaism.
L.
69: Languages.
70: Law, Canon.
71: Law, Commercial.
72: Law, Constitutional.
73: Law, Military.
74: Law, Monarchical.
75: Law, Roman, in the Americas.
76: Law of Nations.
77: Liberties, Royal.
78: Literary and Visual Expressions, African American.
79: Literary Genres: Captivity Narratives.
80: Literary Genres: Travel Narratives and Compilations.
81: Livestock.
M.
82: Mami Wata.
83: Manumission.
84: Marine Resources.
85: Maritime Populations.
86: Maroons.
87: Military Mobilization.
88: Military Technologies.
89: Missionary Orders and Communities.
90: Modernity.
91: Monarchies and Agents.
92: Muslims, African, in the Americas.
N.
93: Nation.
94: Native American Removals.
95: Natural History.
96: Navies and Naval Arming.
97: Navigation and Nautical Sciences.
P.
98: Paramount Chiefdoms.
99: Patron-Client Networks.
100: Penal Transportation.
101: Political Systems, African.
102: Political Systems, Collective Consensual.
103: Prophetic Movements.
R.
104: Race.
105: Raiders.
106: Religions, African.
107: Religions, African, Historiography of.
108: Religions, African, in the Americas.
109: Revolts, Slave.
110: Revolutions, National: France.
111: River Systems.
S.
112: Seven Years' War.
113: Slavery, U.S..
114: Slave Trade, Suppression of Atlantic.
115: Slaving, in Africa.
116: Slaving, European, from Africa.
117: Slaving, European, of Native Americans.
118: Slaving, Muslim, of Christians.
119: Sovereignty.
120: Specie.
T.
121: Technologies, African.
122: Trading Companies.
123: Trading Diasporas.
U.
124: Underdevelopment.
125: Utopias.
V.
126: Visual Representations.
W.
127: Wars, African: Slaving and Other.
128: Wars, Napoleonic.
129: Wars of Conquest.
130: Wars of Independence, American.
131: Weapons of the Weak.
132: World/Global History.
133: World-Systems Theory.
Index.