Soundings in Atlantic History

Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-674-06177-4
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 640 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 773 g

These innovative essays probe the underlying unities that bound the early modern Atlantic world into a regional whole and trace some of the intellectual currents that flowed through the lives of the people of the four continents. Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, the essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and of commerce, legal and illegal, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, the Protestant international that linked Boston and pietist Germany, and the awareness and meaning of the Atlantic world in the mind of that preeminent intellectual and percipient observer, David Hume. In his Introduction, Bailyn explains that the Atlantic world was never self-enclosed or isolated from the rest of the globe but suggests that experiences in the early modern Atlantic region were distinctive in ways that shaped the course of world history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailyn, Bernard

Denault, Patricia L

Weitere Mitwirkende

Behrendt, Stephen D.

Heywood, Linda M.

Thornton, John

Hancock, David

Klooster, Wim

Martínez-Serna, J. Gabriel

Beiler, Rosalind

Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge

Safier, Neil

Schiebinger, Londa

Dávilo, Beatriz

Rothschild, Emma

Peterson, Mark Allen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Schiebinger, Londa
Londa Schiebinger is John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.

Heywood, Linda M.
Linda M. Heywood is Professor of History and African American Studies at Boston University.

Rothschild, Emma
Emma Rothschild is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Director of the Center for History and Economics, King's College.

Bailyn, Bernard
Bernard Bailyn was Adams University Professor, Emeritus, and James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Denault, Patricia L
Patricia L. Denault is Web Editor for the The Business History Conference. She is former Administrative Director of Harvard University’s International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500–1825, and its Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.