Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830, The - Softcover

Burnard, Trevor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350073520 ISBN 13: 9781350073524

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

The Atlantic in World History, 1490-1830 looks at the historical connections between four continents – Africa, Europe, North America and South America – through the lens of Atlantic history. It shows how the Atlantic has been more than just an ocean: it has been an important site of circulation and transmission, allowing exchanges and interchanges which have profoundly shaped the development of the world. Divided into four thematic sections, Trevor Burnard’s sweeping yet concise narrative covers the period from the voyages of Columbus to the New World in the 1490s through to the end of the Age of Revolutions around 1830. It deals with key topics including the Columbian exchange, Atlantic slavery and abolition, war as a global phenomenon, the Age of Revolution, religious conversion, nation-building, trade and commerce and intellectual movements such as the Enlightenment. Rather than focusing on the ‘rise of the West’, Burnard stresses the interactive nature of encounters between various parts of the world, setting local case studies within his broader interconnected narrative. Written by a leading historian of Atlantic history, and including further reading lists, images and maps as well as a companion website featuring discussion questions, timelines and primary source extracts, this is an essential book for students of Atlantic and world history.

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About the Author

Trevor Burnard is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and Director of the Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull, UK. Among his major works are The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (2016), Planters, Merchants, and Slaves: Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820 (2015), Mastery, Tyranny and Desire: Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World (2004) and Creole Gentlemen: The Maryland Elite, 1691-1776 (2002). He is also the Editor in Chief of the Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350073520
• ISBN 13: 9781350073524
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 340