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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 ...
Settlement and Region in British America, 1607-1763
Trevor Burnard
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2011-05-25
Settlement and Region in British America, 1607–1763 Introduction When the English ventured overseas in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, ...
Seven Years' War, The
Geoffrey Plank
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
The Seven Years’ War Introduction The Seven Years’ War began in 1754 in the upper Ohio River Valley in what is now western Pennsylvania. Britis...
Sex and Sexuality
Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Sex and Sexuality Introduction Encounters around the Atlantic world often involved sex, a fact that fascinated and troubled people at the tim...
Ships and Shipping
Kenneth Morgan
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2010-05-10
Ships and Shipping Introduction The scattered nature of colonial settlements across three thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean placed ships a...
Slave Owners In The British Atlantic
Nick Draper
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2012-12-19
Slave Owners in the British Atlantic Introduction The recent historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world has, for entirely understandable ...
Slave Rebellions
James Sidbury
Subject: Atlantic History »
Date Added: 2013-02-26
Slave Rebellions Introduction The importance and meaning of slave rebellions for our understanding of slavery has changed. During the first ha...
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