The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History by Joseph C. Miller

Between the 15th and 19th centuries, the connections between Africa, the Americas, and Europe remodeled international history—through maritime exploration, advertisement engagements, human migrations and settlements, political realignments and upheavals, cultural exchanges, and extra. This e-book, the 1st encyclopedic reference paintings on Atlantic historical past, takes an built-in, multicontinental process that emphasizes the dynamics of switch and the views and motivations of the peoples who made it ensue. The entries—all particularly commissioned for this quantity from a global group of prime scholars—synthesize the newest scholarship on principal subject matters, together with economics, migration, politics, battle, applied sciences and technological know-how, the actual atmosphere, and culture.

Part one good points 5 significant essays that hint the alterations designated to every chronological part of Atlantic background. half comprises greater than a hundred twenty five entries on key themes, from the probably typical seen in surprising and provocative methods (the Seven Years' conflict, buying and selling businesses) to much less traditional matters (family networks, canon legislations, utopias).

This is an critical source for college students, researchers, and students in more than a few fields, from early American, African, Latin American, and ecu background to the histories of economics, faith, and science.

• The first encyclopedic reference on Atlantic history
• Features 5 significant essays and greater than a hundred twenty five alphabetical entries
• Provides crucial context on significant parts of change:
• Economies (for instance, the slave alternate, marine assets, commodities, specie, buying and selling companies)
• Populations (emigrations, local American removals, mixed communities)
• Politics and legislations (the legislations of countries, royal liberties, paramount chiefdoms, independence struggles in Haiti, the Hispanic Americas, the USA, and France)
• Military activities (the African and Napoleonic wars, the Seven Years' conflict, wars of conquest)
• Technologies and technology (cartography, nautical technology, geography, therapeutic practices)
• The actual setting (climate and climate, wooded area assets, agricultural creation, nutrition and diets, disease)
• Cultures and groups (captivity narratives, religions and spiritual practices)
• Includes unique contributions from Sven Beckert, Holly Brewer, Peter A. Coclanis, Seymour Drescher, Eliga H. Gould, David S. Jones, Wim Klooster, Mark Peterson, Steven Pincus, Richard expense and Sophia Rosenfeld, and plenty of more
• Contains illustrations, maps, and bibliographies