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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800060603321

Titolo

Atlantic American societies : from Columbus through abolition, 1492-1888 / / edited by Alan L. Karras and J.R. McNeill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-89407-4

1-134-89408-2

1-280-32545-3

0-203-20099-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Rewriting Histories

Altri autori (Persone)

KarrasAlan L

McNeillJohn Robert

Disciplina

970

Soggetti

America History To 1810

America Social conditions

America Civilization European influences

America Civilization African influences

America History 1810-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 270-274).

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; THE ATLANTIC WORLD AS A UNIT OF STUDY Alan L.Karras; ILLS Alfred W.Crosby; TRAGEDY AND SACRIFICE IN THE HISTORY OF SLAVERY Patrick Manning; THE LABOR PROBLEM AT JAMESTOWN Edmund Morgan; THE COSMIC ORDER IN CRISIS Nancy M.Farriss; SLAVE RESISTANCE IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA Peter Wood; PORTS OF COLONIAL BRAZIL A.J.R.Russell-Wood; THE FUR TRADE AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMPERIALISM W.J.Eccles; THE END OF THE OLD ATLANTIC WORLD: AMERICA, AFRICA, EUROPE, 1770  1888 J.R.McNeill; Glossary; Select bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Within the chronological framework of Implantation, Maturation and Transition, this book provides the history of European expansion in the Americas from the age of Columbus through the abolition of slavery. Suggesting a shift in the traditional units of analysis away from nationally defined boundaries, this volume considers all of the



Americas - and Africa - to encourage students to see the larger interimperial issues which governed behaviour in both the new world and the old. It also provides students with a mechanism for viewing interimperial rivalries from the largest possible perspective,