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The Atlantic connection : a history of the Atlantic world, 1450-1990 / Anna Suranyi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suranyi, Anna, 1967- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Relations.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Europe--Relations--Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Europe.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015.
- Summary:
- Focusing on the interconnections of the Atlantic world from 1450-1900, The Atlantic Connection examines the major themes of Atlantic history. During this period, ships, goods, diseases, human beings and ideas flowed across the ocean, tying together the Atlantic basin in a complex web of relationships. Divided into five main thematic sections while maintaining a broadly chronological structure, this book considers key cultural themes such as gender, social developments, the economy, and ideologies as well as: the role of the Atlantic in ensuring European dominance, the creation of a set of societies with new cultural norms and philosophical ideals that continued to evolve and to transform not only the Atlantic, but the rest of the world, the contestation over rights and justice that emerged from the Atlantic world which continues to exist as a significant issue today. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I. Explorations and first contacts
- The Atlantic world before 1492
- Europe: a new age of trade and travel
- Medieval Africa
- The Americas
- Part II. Colonization and conquest
- The voyages of Columbus
- The Columbian exchange
- Earliest encounters
- Spanish colonial institutions in New Spain
- The colonization of Brazil
- Colonial settlements in Northern America and the Caribbean
- Part III: Connections, journeys, and war
- Atlantic trade and empire
- Slavery
- Part IV: The age of ideas
- The enlightenment
- The age of revolution
- New forms of resistance and expansion
- The abolition of slavery in the Atlantic
- Part IV: The paradox of modernity
- Industrialization
- Migration
- Atlantic societies in the nineteenth century
- Continued colonialism
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415639859
- 0415639859
- 9780415639866
- 0415639867
- OCLC:
- 906292811
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