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Loyalism

Liam Riordan

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-05-25

Loyalism Introduction Loyalism as explored here refers to the ideologies, experiences, actions, and legacies of those who opposed the American ...

Lutherans

Wolfgang Splitter

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Lutherans Introduction Lutheranism came to North America when a shipload of Dutch Reformed, together with a few scattered German and Scandinav...

Marriage and Family

Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Marriage and Family Introduction People of the Atlantic world experienced political upheaval, migration, religious and intellectual transformat...

Material Culture

Robert DuPlessis

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Material Culture Introduction For a number of reasons, both narrowly academic and broadly social, scholarly interest in artifacts is on...

Mercantilism

Albane Forestier

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-05-25

Mercantilism Introduction The term “mercantilism” is used to refer to a set of economic theories and policies that dominated in early modern Euro...

Merchants

Pierre Gervais

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-07-24

Merchants Introduction Atlantic history in the early modern period is, if not only the history of merchants, at least mostly the history of me...

Merchants' Networks

Cathy D. Matson

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-08-29

Merchants’ Networks Introduction For many decades, scholars have studied the commercial connections of the Atlantic world across national and ...

Mexico

Sean McEnroe

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-05-25

Mexico Introduction Works treating Atlantic history and world systems as their explicit object generally address a broader geographic field tha...

Migrations and Diasporas

Susanne Lachenicht

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Migrations and Diasporas Introduction Between 1492 and 1866 millions of people crossed the Atlantic—from Africa’s west coast (from 1500 to 1866,...

Miners

Kris Lane

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2012-07-24

Miners Introduction Humans mined and refined gold, silver, copper, tin, and other minerals long before Columbus first crossed the Atlantic in ...

Mining, Gold, and Silver

Kris Lane

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-05-25

Mining, Gold, and Silver Introduction The search for gold and silver spurred Atlantic exploration, and from the 15th to 19th centuries, mines i...

Missionaries

Aliocha Maldavsky

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Missionaries Introduction In the early modern Atlantic world, Catholic and Protestant missionaries were the main agents of Amerindians, Africa...

Music and Music Making

José Ramón Jouve-Martín

Subject: Atlantic History »

Date Added: 2013-01-28

Music and Music Making Introduction Not all societies of the Atlantic world developed writing, or music notation systems for that matter, but ...

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...

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