Atlantic History - Q - Oxford Bibliographies
Indentured Servitude
Michael Guasco
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Indentured Servitude Introduction Although it most famously appeared during the 17th century as a means for facilitating transatlantic migratio...
Jesuits
Shona Johnston
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Jesuits Introduction In 1540 St. Ignatius of Loyola received papal permission to found a new religious order to be known as the Society of Jes...
Labor Systems
Ty M. Reese
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-08-26
Labor Systems Introduction For the vast majority of peoples of the Atlantic world, their place within it was defined by their toil. The most s...
Languages, Caribbean Creole
Silvia Kouwenberg
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Caribbean Creole Languages Introduction The intersection of the fields of Atlantic history and creole studies lies first and foremost in their...
Latin American Independence
Jane Landers
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-12-27
Latin American Independence Introduction The various independence movements in Latin America drew on Enlightenment philosophies about proper ...
Letters and Letter Writing
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Letters and Letter Writing Introduction The early modern period was a great golden age of letters and letter writing in many parts of the Atla...
Literature and Culture
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Literature and Culture Introduction Atlantic literary studies is a young field that is in the midst of rapid change and expansion. The field de...
Literature of the British Caribbean
Tim Watson
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-01-28
Literature of the British Caribbean Introduction Until recently, Caribbean literature in English before 1850 has received relatively little at...
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...
How to Subscribe
Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions and individuals. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here.
Purchase an Ebook Version of This Article
Ebooks of the Oxford Bibliographies Online subject articles are available in North America via a number of retailers including Amazon, vitalsource, and more. Simply search on their sites for Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides and your desired subject article.
If you would like to purchase an eBook article and live outside North America please email onlinemarketing@oup.com to express your interest.