Soundings in Atlantic History : Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830.
Bailyn, Bernard.
Soundings in Atlantic History : Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (635 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Introduction: Reflections on Some Major Themes / Bernard Bailyn -- 1. Ecology, Seasonality, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Stephen D. Behrendt -- 2. 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 and John K. Thornton -- 3. The Triumphs of Mercury: Connection and Control in the Emerging Atlantic Economy / David J. Hancock -- 4. Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster -- 5. Procurators and the Making of the Jesuits' Atlantic Network / J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna -- 6. Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1710 / Rosalind J. Beiler -- 7. Typology in the Atlantic World: Early Modern Readings of Colonization / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- 8. A Courier between Empires: Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic World / Neil Safier -- 9. Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World / Londa Schiebinger -- 10. Theopolis Americana: The City-State of Boston, the Republic of Letters, and the Protestant International, 1689-1739 / Mark A. Peterson -- 11. The Río de la Plata and Anglo-American Political and Social Models, 1810-1827 / Beatriz Dávilo -- 12. The Atlantic Worlds of David Hume / Emma Rothschild -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction, these essays include analyses of the climate and ecology underlying the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of Hume.
9780674053533
Electronic books.
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909/.09821
Soundings in Atlantic History : Latent Structures and Intellectual Currents, 1500-1830. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (635 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables -- Introduction: Reflections on Some Major Themes / Bernard Bailyn -- 1. Ecology, Seasonality, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Stephen D. Behrendt -- 2. 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 and John K. Thornton -- 3. The Triumphs of Mercury: Connection and Control in the Emerging Atlantic Economy / David J. Hancock -- 4. Inter-Imperial Smuggling in the Americas, 1600-1800 / Wim Klooster -- 5. Procurators and the Making of the Jesuits' Atlantic Network / J. Gabriel Martínez-Serna -- 6. Dissenting Religious Communication Networks and European Migration, 1660-1710 / Rosalind J. Beiler -- 7. Typology in the Atlantic World: Early Modern Readings of Colonization / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra -- 8. A Courier between Empires: Hipólito da Costa and the Atlantic World / Neil Safier -- 9. Scientific Exchange in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World / Londa Schiebinger -- 10. Theopolis Americana: The City-State of Boston, the Republic of Letters, and the Protestant International, 1689-1739 / Mark A. Peterson -- 11. The Río de la Plata and Anglo-American Political and Social Models, 1810-1827 / Beatriz Dávilo -- 12. The Atlantic Worlds of David Hume / Emma Rothschild -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Drawn together in a comprehensive Introduction, these essays include analyses of the climate and ecology underlying the slave trade, pan-Atlantic networks of religion and commerce, inter-ethnic collaboration in the development of tropical medicine, science as a product of imperial relations, and awareness of the Atlantic world in the mind of Hume.
9780674053533
Electronic books.
D210
909/.09821