The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World: 1450-1850

ISBN-13: 9780199210879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 752 str.

Nicholas Canny

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

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.