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Port Cities, British

Tony Webster

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-05-25

British Port Cities Introduction There has been much recent academic interest in the development of port cities generally, arising principally ...

Port Cities, British American

Kenneth Morgan

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

British American Port Cities Introduction British American port cities were an important part of the social, economic, cultural, and political ...

Port Cities, French

Silvia Marzagalli

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

French Port Cities Introduction From the 15th to the 19th centuries, the French participated to the emergence of an Atlantic world, while th...

Port Cities, French American

Cécile Vidal

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

French American Port Cities Introduction Most urban settlements founded by the French in the Americas were port cities on the sea or on a rive...

Ports, African

Ty M. Reese

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-04-14

African Ports Introduction Starting in the 15th century, West Africa’s orientation started to change from being inward looking, to the trans-Sa...

Portuguese Atlantic World

John M. Monteiro

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-04-14

Portuguese Atlantic World Introduction The development of Portuguese navigation, trade, colonization, and intercultural exchange played a key rol...

Poverty in the Early Modern English Atlantic

David Hitchcock

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Poverty in the Early Modern English Atlantic Introduction Poverty in the early modern English Atlantic world was an economic reality that coul...

Protestantism

Carla Gardina Pestana

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Protestantism Introduction Protestants arrived relatively late in the Atlantic world. No permanent settlement of Protestants was founded until ...

Quakers

John Smolenski

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Quakers Introduction The Society of Friends, colloquially known as the Quakers, played a major role in shaping the religious culture of the At...

Race and Racism

Andrew Wells

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Race and Racism Introduction It has become an acknowledged commonplace that “race” and the other entities from and against which it has been d...

Race, The Idea of

Michael Guasco

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

The Idea of Race Introduction The history of race in the Atlantic world is a complicated topic made even more so by the difficulty in defin...

Refugees, Saint-Domingue

Nathalie Dessens

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-12-19

Saint-Domingue Refugees Introduction From the onset of the Haitian Revolution in 1791 to the proclamation of the Republic of Haiti in January 1...

Religion

Carla Gardina Pestana

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Religion Introduction Religion shaped the early modern Atlantic world in many ways. Although Iberian expansion began before the Protestant ...

Religion in the British Civil Wars

Rachel N. Schnepper

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-02-26

Religion in the British Civil Wars Introduction Religion and the British Civil Wars, also known as the War of the Three Kingdoms or the Englis...

Religious Border-Crossing

Susanne Lachenicht

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Religious Border-Crossing Introduction Religious border-crossing in the Atlantic world was common practice. French Huguenots in the Hudson Val...

Religious Networks

Susanne Lachenicht

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Religious Networks Introduction Research on religions and religious migrants in the Atlantic world (and beyond) has made evident that these gr...

Rio de Janeiro

Ronald Raminelli

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-02-26

Rio de Janeiro Introduction From the 17th century on, the city of Rio de Janeiro was an important urban center in the southern Atlantic, conne...

Rum

Frederick H. Smith

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

Rum Introduction Rum is the alcoholic beverage produced by distilling fermented sugarcane juice and the waste products of sugar making. It was...

Scandinavian Chartered Companies

Hanna Hodacs

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

Scandinavian Chartered Companies Introduction Chartered companies were established in Scandinavia from the beginning of the 17th century. Thes...

Science, History of

Susan Scott Parrish

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

History of Science Introduction The prevailing model that addressed the intertwined topics of science and empire until the 1980s was that of ...

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