The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World 1450-1850

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. The team of scholars in this volume seek to describe, explain, and, occasionally, challenge conventional wisdom concerning these path-breaking developments. They demonstrate connections, explore contrasts, and probe themes. During the four centuries encompassed by this collection, pan-Atlantic webs of association emerged that progressively linked people, objects, and beliefs across and within the region. Events in one corner of the Atlantic world had effects, reverberations thousands of miles away. The great virtue of thinking in Atlantic terms is that it encourages broad perspectives, unexpected comparisons, trans-national orientations, and expanded horizons; the parochialism that characterizes so much history writing and instruction today, as in the past, has a chance of being overcome.

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.

Chapter 1 Introduction by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan

Part I: Emergence

Chapter 2 . The Worlds of Europeans, Africans, and Americans ca 1490 by Joan-Pau Rubiés
Chapter 3 Africans, Early European Contacts, and the Emergent Diaspora by David Northrup
Chapter 4 Native Americans and Europeans: Early Encounters in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic Coast by Neil Whitehead
Chapter 5 Atlantic Seafaring by N. A. M. Rodger
Chapter 6 Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic by Matthew Edney
Chapter 7 Violence in the Atlantic, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Jean-Frédéric Schaub
Chapter 8 The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts by David S. Shields
Chapter 9 The Iberian Atlantic to 1650 by Stuart Schwartz
Chapter 10 The Northern European Atlantic World by Wim Klooster

Section II: Consolidation

Chapter 11 The Spanish Atlantic 1650-1780 by Ida Altman
Chapter 12 The Portuguese Atlantic World, ca. 1650-ca.1760 by John Russell-Wood
Chapter 13 The British Atlantic by Joyce Chaplin
Chapter 14 The French Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by Silvia Marzagalli
Chapter 15 Transatlantic Strategies: Native Americans in New Spain, Peru, and North America, c. 1550-1750 by Kevin Terraciano
Chapter 16 Africa, Slavery, and the Slave Trade, mid-Seventeenth to mid-Eighteenth Centuries by David Eltis

Section III: Integration

Chapter 17 The Ecological Atlantic by John R. McNeill
Chapter 18 Movements of People in the Atlantic World, 1450-1850 by William O'Reilly
Chapter 19 Atlantic Trade and Commodities 1402-1815 by David Hancock
Chapter 20 People and Places in the Americas: A Comparative Approach by Richard L. Kagan
Chapter 21 Household Formation, Lineage, and Gender Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Carole Shammas
Chapter 22 Polity Formation and Atlantic Political Narratives by Elizabeth Mancke
Chapter 23 Atlantic Law: Transformations of a Regional Legal Regime by Lauren Benton
Chapter 24 Atlantic Warfare, 1440-1763 by Ira D. Gruber
Chapter 25 Religion in the Atlantic World by Kenneth Mills
Chapter 26 The Challenge of the New by Anthony Pagden
Chapter 27 . Science, Nature, Race by Susan Scott Parrish
Chapter 28 Identities and Processes of Identification in the Atlantic World by Tamar Herzog

Section IV: Disintegration

Chapter 29 Severed Connections: American Indigenous Peoples and the Atlantic World in an Era of Imperial Transformation by Daniel K. Richter and Troy L. Thompson
Chapter 30 The American Revolution in Atlantic Perspective by David Armitage
Chapter 31 The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective by David Geggus
Chapter 32 Popular Movements in Colonial Brazil by Laura de Mello e Souza and João José Reis
Chapter 33 The Hispanic Revolution, 1808-1826 by Jaime E. Rodríguez
Chapter 34 Africa in the Atlantic World, ca. 1760-ca. 1840 by Robin Law
Chapter 35 Slavery and Antislavery, 1760-1820 by Christopher Leslie Brown
Chapter 36 Atlantic World 1760-1820: Economic Impact by Craig Muldrew
Chapter 37 Atlantic and Wider World by Emma Rothschild
1. Introduction, Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan
Part I: Emergence
2. . The Worlds of Europeans, Africans, and Americans ca 1490, Joan-Pau Rubies
3. Africans, Early European Contacts, and the Emergent Diaspora, David Northrup
4. Native Americans and Europeans: Early Encounters in the Caribbean and along the Atlantic Coast, Neil Whitehead
5. Atlantic Seafaring, N. A. M. Rodger
6. Knowledge and Cartography in the Early Atlantic, Matthew Edney
7. Violence in the Atlantic, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Jean-Frederic Schaub
8. The Atlantic World, the Senses, and the Arts, David S. Shields
9. The Iberian Atlantic to 1650, Stuart Schwartz
10. The Northern European Atlantic World, Wim Klooster
Section II: Consolidation
11. The Spanish Atlantic 1650-1780, Ida Altman
12. The Portuguese Atlantic World, ca. 1650-ca.1760, John Russell-Wood
13. The British Atlantic, Joyce Chaplin
14. The French Atlantic World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Silvia Marzagalli
15. Transatlantic Strategies: Native Americans in New Spain, Peru, and North America, c. 1550-1750, Kevin Terraciano
16. Africa, Slavery, and the Slave Trade, mid-Seventeenth to mid-Eighteenth Centuries, David Eltis
Section III: Integration
17. The Ecological Atlantic, John R. McNeill
18. Movements of People in the Atlantic World, 1450-1850, William O'Reilly
19. Atlantic Trade and Commodities 1402-1815, David Hancock
20. People and Places in the Americas: A Comparative Approach, Richard L. Kagan
21. Household Formation, Lineage, and Gender Relations in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Carole Shammas
22. Polity Formation and Atlantic Political Narratives, Elizabeth Mancke
23. Atlantic Law: Transformations of a Regional Legal Regime, Lauren Benton
24. Atlantic Warfare, 1440-1763, Ira D. Gruber
25. Religion in the Atlantic World, Kenneth Mills
26. The Challenge of the New, Anthony Pagden
27. . Science, Nature, Race, Susan Scott Parrish
28. Identities and Processes of Identification in the Atlantic World, Tamar Herzog
Section IV: Disintegration
29. Severed Connections: American Indigenous Peoples and the Atlantic World in an Era of Imperial Transformation, Daniel K. Richter and Troy L. Thompson
30. The American Revolution in Atlantic Perspective, David Armitage
31. The Haitian Revolution in Atlantic Perspective, David Geggus
32. Popular Movements in Colonial Brazil, Laura de Mello e Souza and Joao Jose Reis
33. The Hispanic Revolution, 1808-1826, Jaime E. Rodriguez
34. Africa in the Atlantic World, ca. 1760-ca. 1840, Robin Law
35. Slavery and Antislavery, 1760-1820, Christopher Leslie Brown
36. Atlantic World 1760-1820: Economic Impact, Craig Muldrew
37. Atlantic and Wider World, Emma Rothschild