Atlantic History - E - Oxford Bibliographies
Economy and Consumption
Robert DuPlessis
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Economy and Consumption Introduction Whether there was such a thing as an “Atlantic economy” in the early modern period (the centuries from...
Economy of British America, The
Cathy D. Matson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-07-24
The Economy of British America Introduction From its earliest settlement in the early 1600s by small groups of British individuals to the conc...
Elites
François-Joseph Ruggiu
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Elites Introduction “Elites” is a sociological concept born at the beginning of the 20th century and defined especially by Vilfredo Pareto. Th...
Emancipation
Roderick McDonald, Michelle Craig McDonald
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Emancipation Introduction The process of emancipation in the Atlantic world spanned most of the 19th century and took a variety of forms. So...
Empire and State Formation
Catherine Desbarats
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Empire and State Formation Introduction Historical writing on empire and state formation is undergoing a kind of global renaissance for a host...
Enlightenment, The
Mark Knights
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Enlightenment Introduction The Enlightenment is a contested and often loosely defined term. It is sometimes taken to mean an intellectu...
Environment and the Natural World
Susan Scott Parrish
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Environment and the Natural World Introduction One of the central tenets of environmental history is that the natural world does not cons...
Ethnicity
Susanne Lachenicht
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Ethnicity Introduction “Ethnicity” is a term that we owe to the 20th century. It first appeared in W. Lloyd Warner and Paul S. Lunt’s The Soci...
Europe and the Atlantic World, Northern
Gunvor Simonsen
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Northern Europe and the Atlantic World Introduction The engagement of northern European states and peoples in the Atlantic world has received l...
Europe and the Atlantic World, Western
Molly Warsh
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Western Europe and the Atlantic World Introduction Exploration, trade, and fishing expeditions had long tempted sailors and adventurers into A...
Evangelicalism and Conversion
Carla Gardina Pestana
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Evangelicalism and Conversion Introduction Conversion was a frequently cited reason for European expansion into the wider Atlantic world. All c...
Feminism
Ann Taylor Allen
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Feminism Introduction Although women, as individuals and in groups, have protested against the various forms of subordination they experienced...
Fiscal-Military State
Mark Knights
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Fiscal-Military State Introduction A fiscal-military state was one capable of sustaining large-scale warfare through taxation and fiscal in...
Fiscality
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Fiscality Introduction The early modern Atlantic world was a space of circulation and exchange for people, ideas, and commodities. European st...
Food
Jeffrey Pilcher
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Food Introduction Food is at the heart of human societies, economies, and cultures, but historians have long considered it peripheral to their...
Free People of Color
Matt Childs
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Free People of Color Introduction Wherever slavery existed in the Americas, free people of color could be found. Despite the ubiquitous pre...
French Atlantic World
Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
French Atlantic World Introduction The very notions of Atlantic history and a French Atlantic are heavily debated, especially by French histo...
French Revolution, The
Allan Potofsky
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
The French Revolution Introduction Was the French Revolution part of a single movement that historians conceptualize as the revolutionary Atlan...
Gender
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Gender Introduction Women as well as men were central to the patterns of trade and conquest that made the Atlantic world. Early work in Atl...
Germans in the Atlantic World
Philip Otterness
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Germans in the Atlantic World Introduction The scope of the German Atlantic world is somewhat limited when compared to the Atlantic worlds cre...
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