02892nam 2200625Ia 450 991079192440332120230126204234.00-19-998655-X1-283-57661-997866138890650-19-971373-1(CKB)2560000000089272(EBL)998947(OCoLC)811490521(SSID)ssj0000704473(PQKBManifestationID)12287414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704473(PQKBWorkID)10705932(PQKB)10272782(Au-PeEL)EBL998947(CaPaEBR)ebr10590421(CaONFJC)MIL388906(MiAaPQ)EBC998947(EXLCZ)99256000000008927220120305d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Atlantic in world history[electronic resource] /Karen Ordahl KuppermanNew York Oxford University Pressc20121 online resource (166 p.)23 cmNew Oxford world history0-19-516074-6 0-19-533809-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Editors' Preface; INTRODUCTION: Thinking Atlantically; CHAPTER 1 Atlantic Memories; CHAPTER 2 Atlantic Beginnings; CHAPTER 3 Atlantic People; CHAPTER 4 Commodities: Foods, Drugs, and Dyes; CHAPTER 5 Eighteenth-Century Realities; EPILOGUE: The Atlantic; Chronology; Notes; Further Reading; Websites; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZAs Europeans began to move into the Atlantic in the late fifteenth century, first encountering islands and then two continents across the sea, they initiated a process that revolutionized the lives of people everywhere. American foods enriched their diets. Furs, precious metals, dyes, and many other products underwrote new luxury trades, and tobacco became the first consumer craze as the price plummeted with ever-enlarging production.Much of the technology that made new initiatives, such as sailing out of sight of land, possibly drew on Asian advances that came into Europe through North AfricaSocial historyAtlantic Ocean RegionHistoryTo 1500Atlantic Ocean RegionHistory16th centuryAtlantic Ocean RegionHistory17th centuryAtlantic Ocean RegionHistory18th centuryAtlantic Ocean RegionCivilizationSocial history.909/.09821Kupperman Karen Ordahl1939-969379MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791924403321The Atlantic in world history3756917UNINA