Soundings in Atlantic history : latent structures and intellectual currents, 1500-1830 /
Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction by Bernard Bailyn, these innovative essays include analyses of the climate and ecology that underlay the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, as well as the inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, scie...
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2009
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Reflections on some major themes / Bernard Bailyn
- Ecology, seasonality, and the transatlantic slave trade / Stephen D. Behrendt
- Kongo and Dahomey, 1660-1815 : African political leadership in the era of the slave trade and its impact on the formation of African identity in Brazil / Linda M. Heywood, John K. Thornton
- The triumphs of Mercury : connection and control in the emerging Atlantic economy / David J. Hancock
- Inter-imperial smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster
- Procurators and the making of the Jesuits' Atlantic network / J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna
- Dissenting religious communication networks and European migration, 1660-1710 / Rosalind J. Beiler
- Typology in the Atlantic world : early modern readings of colonization / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
- A courier between empires : Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic world / Neil Safier
- Scientific exchange in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world / Londa Schiebinger
- Theopolis Americana : the city-state of Boston, the republic of letters, and the Protestant international, 1689-1739 / Mark A. Peterson
- The Río de la Plata and Anglo-American political and social models, 1810-1827 / Beatriz Dávilo
- The Atlantic worlds of David Hume / Emma Rothschild.
