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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...
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...
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