Atlantic History - C - Oxford Bibliographies
Captivity
Neal Salisbury
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Captivity Introduction The study of cross-cultural captivity as a phenomenon of Atlantic history from the late 15th to late 19th centuries rema...
Caribbean, The
Gad Heuman
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The Caribbean Introduction The Caribbean includes the arc of islands in the Caribbean Sea but also the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, and French Gu...
Castas
Rachel O'Toole
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Castas Introduction Lower-status people and people of color in colonial Latin America, or the castas, as well as casta categories or terms tha...
Catholicism
Allyson M. Poska
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Catholicism Introduction The Roman Catholic Church was the single largest institution of the early modern Atlantic world. Its reach extended fr...
Chartered Companies, British and Dutch
Tony Webster
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
British and Dutch Chartered Companies Introduction Chartered companies were commercial organizations that enjoyed special privileges granted by...
Chocolate
Adam Siegel, Axel Borg
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Chocolate Introduction While the role of Theobroma cacao L. in the Atlantic economy has been overshadowed by other commodity crops such as cof...
Class and Social Structure
Simon Middleton
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Class and Social Structure Introduction The study of social structure—meaning the relationships between different social groups and the signif...
Clothing
Sophie White
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Clothing Introduction The study of clothing offers a distinctive methodological approach to understanding the Atlantic world. It engages with ...
Coffee
Michelle Craig McDonald
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Coffee Introduction Coffee has been one of the top five most heavily traded commodities worldwide for almost a century, and its production and...
Colonial Governance in Spanish America
Emily Berquist Soule
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-03-19
Colonial Governance in Spanish America Introduction Infamously complex and mutable, yet in some ways surprisingly standardized, the Spanish go...
Colonization of English America
Trevor Burnard
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Colonization of English America Introduction England was a latecomer in the colonization of the Americas. It drew heavily on the example of...
Colonization, Ideologies of
Ken MacMillan
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Ideologies of Colonization Introduction Envisioning, executing, and explaining colonization in the Atlantic world was a complex process for...
Comparative Indigenous History of the Americas
Yanna Yannakakis
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Comparative Indigenous History of the Americas Introduction The Atlantic world as an organizing concept for the history of the region bounded ...
Constitutions
Max Edling
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Constitutions Introduction The age of Atlantic revolutions was also an age of constitution making. From Chile to Russia, from Norway to Malta, ...
Continental America
Kathleen DuVal
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Continental America Introduction Traditionally, early American history was limited to the thirteen British colonies that rebelled and becam...
Cotton
Beverly Lemire
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
Cotton Introduction Cotton is one of the catalyst commodities in world history. This fiber was at the center of manufacturing and internationa...
Creolization
Roderick McDonald, Michelle Craig McDonald
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Creolization Introduction Few areas of historical scholarship have undergone such dramatic expansion, in so short a space of time, as the stu...
Diaspora, Jewish
David Graizbord
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Jewish Diaspora Introduction Despite the existence of various academic works on Jews in or of various corners of the Atlantic, the study of Jew...
Diaspora, The Acadian
Christopher Hodson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
The Acadian Diaspora Introduction Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers undertook what one officer described a...
Disease in the Atlantic World
David S. Jones
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-04-14
Disease in the Atlantic World Introduction The advent of transatlantic exploration, colonization, and trade in the 15th and 16th centuries brou...
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