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Nation, Nationhood, and Nationalism
Douglas Bradburn
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Nation, Nationhood, and Nationalism Introduction Nationalism reflects the desire of “nations” for a system of government that secures their int...
Native American Histories in North America
Susan Sleeper-Smith
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Native American Histories in North America Introduction The involvement of Indian activists in the public protests of the 1960s and 1970s offe...
Native American Religions
David J. Silverman
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Native American Religions Introduction There are two different bodies of scholarship on American Indian religion, separated by academic discip...
Native Americans and the Atlantic World
James Taylor Carson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-06-29
Native Americans and the Atlantic World Introduction The Atlantic World is a historical concept that frames the histories of Europe, Africa, an...
Networks of Science and Scientists
Helen Cowie
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Networks of Science and Scientists Introduction Science in the Atlantic world was founded on the exchange of knowledge and objects across spac...
New France and Louisiana
Geoffrey Plank
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-07-27
New France and Louisiana Introduction The colonies France founded on the mainland of North America in the seventeenth century, Acadia, Canada, ...
Oceanic History
Kenneth Morgan
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Oceanic History Introduction Oceanic history—specified here as the maritime history of the Atlantic—provides an overall frame of reference fo...
Papacy and the Atlantic World
Shona Johnston
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Papacy and the Atlantic World Introduction The early modern papacy (c. 1500–1800) constituted a vast bureaucracy (sometimes called the Holy Se...
Plantations
Christer Petley
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Plantations Introduction In the 16th century, “the plantation” referred to an area of overseas settlement by English settlers, such as the pla...
Polygamy and Bigamy
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Polygamy and Bigamy Introduction Polygamy and bigamy provoked heated controversies in the early modern Atlantic world and formed a topic of di...
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...
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