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Soundings in Atlantic history : latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500-1830 / edited by Bernard Bailyn and Patricia L. Denault.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History, Modern.
- Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
- Atlantic Ocean Region.
- Atlantic Ocean Region--Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (640 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, these innovative essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, as well as the inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and the awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of David Hume.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Reflections on some major themes / Bernard Bailyn
- Ecology, seasonality, and the transatlantic slave trade / Stephen D. Behrendt
- Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815 : African political leadership in the era of the slave trade and its impact on the formation of African identity in Brazil / Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton
- The triumphs of Mercury : connection and control in the emerging Atlantic economy / David J. Hancock
- Inter-imperial smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster
- Procurators and the making of the Jesuits' Atlantic network / J. Gabriel Martinez-Serna
- Dissenting religious communication networks and European migration, 1660-1710 / Rosalind J. Beiler
- Typology in the Atlantic world : early modern readings of colonization / Jorge Canizares-Esguerra
- A courier between empires : Hipolito da Costa and the Atlantic world / Neil Safier
- Scientific exchange in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Londa Schiebinger
- Theopolis Americana : the city-state of Boston, the republic of letters, and the Protestant international, 1689-1739 / Mark A. Peterson
- The Rio de la Plata and Anglo-American political and social models, 1810-1827 / Beatriz Davilo
- The Atlantic worlds of David Hume / Emma Rothschild.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-609) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-05353-2
- OCLC:
- 648760632
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