This ambitious work provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world, independence movements in Africa, Caribbean nationalism, and gender and identity in the 20th century are just a few subjects discussed. Moving beyond the micro-histories of the scholarly monograph to connect the fruits of those researches with broader events and processes, this book, in the editors' words, makes "a concerted effort to re-connect elites and non-elites, Old World and New, early modern and modern, and economics and culture." It will be a point of embarkation for a new generation of students of the Atlantic world. Table of Contents
Introduction
Map of the Atlantic World
I. Nations and Migrations
1. The World of the Atlantic before the "Atlantic World": Africa, Europe, and the Americas before 1450
2. Contact and Conquest in Africa and the Americas
3. Migrations and Frontiers
II. Empires and Slavery
4. From Servitude to Slavery
5. The Slave Trade's Apex in the Eighteenth Century
6. The Nineteenth-Century Black Atlantic
7. Gender, Race, and Women in the Early Atlantic World
III. Independence and Abolition
8. Independence Movements in the New World
9. The Rise of Abolition
10. African Independence Movements
IV. Globalization and its Discontents
11. Africanism in Caribbean Nationalism, 1900-1959
12. The Cold War in the Atlantic World
13. Gender and Identity in the Twentieth-Century Atlantic World
14. Reparation and Repair: Reform Movements in the Atlantic World
Bibliography
Author Notes
Index
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