Soundings in Atlantic History: Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830

by Neil Safier, David Hancock, Patricia L. Denault, et al.

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674061772
• ISBN13: 9780674061774
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"