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The Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas
Dr Catherine Armstrong
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Description for The Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas
Paperback. A succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety. The book explores discrete themes such as conquest, trade and race in an holistic Atlantic context, and provides a thorough overview of key and cutting edge scholarship in the field for an undergraduate audience. Num Pages: 260 pages, 8 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 402.
Providing a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety, The Atlantic Experience traces the first Portuguese journeys to the West coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth century through to the abolition of slavery in America in the late-nineteenth century. Bringing together the histories of Europe, Africa and the Americas, this book supersedes a history of nations, foregrounds previously neglected parts of these continents, and explores the region as a holistic entity that encompassed people from many different areas, ethnic groups and national backgrounds. Distilling this huge topic into key themes such as ... Read more
Providing a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to the history of the Atlantic world in its entirety, The Atlantic Experience traces the first Portuguese journeys to the West coast of Africa in the mid-fifteenth century through to the abolition of slavery in America in the late-nineteenth century. Bringing together the histories of Europe, Africa and the Americas, this book supersedes a history of nations, foregrounds previously neglected parts of these continents, and explores the region as a holistic entity that encompassed people from many different areas, ethnic groups and national backgrounds. Distilling this huge topic into key themes such as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
260
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230272743
SKU
V9780230272743
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99-15
About Dr Catherine Armstrong
Catherine Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is the author of Landscape and Identity in North America's Southern Colonies 1660-1745. Laura M. Chmielewski is Associate Professor of History at Purchase College, State University of New York, USA. She is the author of The Spice of Popery: Converging Christianities on an Early American ... Read more
Reviews for The Atlantic Experience: Peoples, Places, Ideas
'The Atlantic Experience has the potential to become the leading text in the field for both teachers and students of the Atlantic world and Atlantic history.' - David Ceri Jones, Lecturer in History, Aberystwyth University, UK