The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World: 1450-1850 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 019921087X ISBN 13: 9780199210879

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2011

Riassunto

The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices-to mention some of the key agents―around and within the Atlantic basin. As a result of these movements, new peoples, economies, societies, polities, and cultures arose in the lands and islands touched by the Atlantic Ocean, while others were destroyed.

The team of scholars in this volume seek to describe, explain, and, occasionally, challenge conventional wisdom concerning these path-breaking developments. They demonstrate connections, explore contrasts, and probe themes. During the four centuries encompassed by this collection, pan-Atlantic webs of association emerged that progressively linked people, objects, and beliefs across and within the region. Events in one corner of the Atlantic world had effects, reverberations thousands of miles away. The great virtue of thinking in Atlantic terms is that it encourages broad perspectives, unexpected comparisons, trans-national orientations, and expanded horizons; the parochialism that characterizes so much history writing and instruction today, as in the past, has a chance of being overcome.

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We need to look at this world inside-out, and from bottom-to-top. The essays in this Handbook, while successfully reflecting the current state of the field, also provide some illuminating suggestions as to how we might yet do that. (Michael A. McDonnell, English Historical Review)

L'autore:

Nicholas Canny is Academic Director, Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, and President of the Royal Irish Academy. He has published widely on the history of early modern Ireland, early modern Britain, and the history of European colonization more generally, including Making Ireland British, 1580-1650 (2001) and (as editor) volume one in the Oxford History of the British Empire series, Origins of Empire (1998). Philip Morgan is Harry C. Black Professor, Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal (2009) and Black Experience and the Empire (2004), both also published by Oxford University Press.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 019921087X
• ISBN 13: 9780199210879
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 704
• Redattore: Canny Nicholas, Morgan Philip