A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 - Hardcover

Thornton, John K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521898757 ISBN 13: 9780521898751

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social, and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking, and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject.

About this title

Book Description:

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the strong links between the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing the political, social, and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants.

About the Author:

John K. Thornton is Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University. He is the author of Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (1999) and Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, 1992, 1998) and the co-author of Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660 (Cambridge, 2007) with Linda M. Heywood.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521898757
• ISBN 13: 9780521898751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 562